Sixteen years after his death, Tupac Shakur returns to the stage for a last concert at Coachella. The hologram of the rap icon inaugurates a new bridge between the world of the living and the one of the dead…. Holography was born in the middle[...]
Jupiter's moons are made of rocks, layers of water and ice, but not Io. The fourth moon of the solar system is actually a gigantic volcanic world. Its steep mountains several kilometers high and its irregular depressions form the volcanic calderas. On this burning surface,[...]
Ella Webb is a science illustrator based in London. Her drawings question landscapes and nature and refer to geographical textbooks from the 40s to the 70s. After graduating, she turns very early to the graphic interpretation of land movements. Fascinated by geological imagery and reliefs,[...]
Carried by Arte Futur, The Polar Sea is a documentary in 360° broadcasted in the end of November 2014. It proposes an interactive journey in the Arctic ices. Produced by the film director Kevin McMahon, this very immersive documentary is split in ten episodes. The[...]
Growing up heavily influenced by the lakes, forests and natural beauty of her native Midwest, Alix Lukas is a freelance illustrator based in Chicago. Her work celebrates the beauty of unusual forms, exalting the intricacies of nature in detailed gouache and colored pencil renderings that[...]
In 2000, microscopy specialist and entomologist Stephan Borensztajn observed insects in a scanning electron microscope. His series of strange snapshots reveals anatomical details blown up 500 times, bee’s abdomen, fly eyes or the tiny Psychodidae midge’s head. A fascinating series that displays the treasures of[...]
Judy Schmidt, better known on the web under the pseudonym Geckzilla (a nickname amalgam of Gecko, the little lizard, and Godzilla) is American and equally keen on art and astronomy. She manages to combine her two passions by reworking the colors of images taken by[...]
Last spring, American students from Yale made an extraordinary discovery: in the Amazon forest there is a fungus capable of breaking polyurethane chains contained in plastic. It is called the Pestalotiopsis microspora. Previous studies had already been carried out in this way and researchers had[...]
