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Explore an Underground World of Pixel-Based Microorganisms
Pixels swarm like bacteria and alien spaceships in 'generative nights,' an audiovisual project by Lola and Yukao Meet.
You Don't Want to Get Sick in British Prisons
Inmates may have to wait months to see a doctor, and patterns of substandard treatment, medical negligence, and misdiagnosis are abundant.
Neri Oxman's Bacteria-Infested Spacesuits Are Grown, Not Designed
Sure, spacesuits are cool, but the biology simulations used to design them are even cooler.
A New Microscope Can See Inside Moving Cells In Real Time, and There Are Videos
Erik Betzig just won a Nobel Prize for his new microscope—his follow up is even better.
How to Grow an Artificial Penis
The scientists that gave us lab-grown vaginas are now testing lab-grown penises. Equal opportunity genital regeneration.
Digital Cells Pulse And Grow In Max Cooper's New Music Video
The glitchy, IDM-friendly "Seething" goes microscopic, with cell generation software providing the visual backbone of Cooper's newest video.
Eating Alone in Prison Is Miserable
Prison grub tends to be a bit of a mystery to those on the outside. The days of lining for a sloppy ladleful of gruel are mostly over, but if porridge is no longer staple scran for inmates, what do they eat and who do they eat it with?
How to 3D Print Synthetic Tissue Out of Water Droplets
A new company is developing technology to print tissue-like materials for surgery and drug testing.
The GIFt of Life: Biology in 12 Endless Loops
Bio-GIFs are the animated gifts biology has gifted to the Internets. And here's 10 of the best of them, presented in one particular order. Which is the order that the deterministic biology of my brain dictates as I type this post (we are all biological...