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The Space Artist Who Perfectly Painted All Our Cosmic Dreams
John Conrad Berkey (August 13, 1932 – April 29, 2008) was probably the best known and loved space artist who ever lived on this planet. You may have seen the world-famous American illustrator’s work on...
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The Beautiful Art That Helped Inspire Space Travel
Chesley Bonestell was born long before the flight of the first airplane, and yet he’s well-known as the most influential people in aerospace art. The painter, designer and illustrator died the year of...
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The Beautiful Secrets of Tears, Revealed By a Microscope
What does a tear look like at the microscopic level? It’s more interesting—and beautiful—than you might expect. Read more...
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The Last of the Vulcans Retires After 55 Years of Service
On the 1st of July, 1960 Avro pilot Tony Blackman climbed into the cockpit of a Hawker Siddeley Vulcan delta wing strategic bomber in order to deliver her from the aircraft manufacturer (A.V. Roe and...
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Check Out Russia's New Spaceport Being Built
Preparing to abandon Baikonur, Roscosmos, Russia’s Federal Space Agency is knee deep in building their new spaceport, called the Vostochny Cosmodrome (Eastern Spaceport) in the Russian Far East.Read...
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Narcotics and Medicines Look Beautiful Under a Microscope
These stunning macro photos–micrographs–captured by Dutch photographer Maurice Mikkers are going to show you a whole new world, which still seems familiar on many levels. Read more...
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Iconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground
Photographer Edgar Martins' book, The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, is a must-have for space enthusiasts. But for those without the hard copy, the European...
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21 Bizarre Maps That Depict Nations As Animals, People, and Monsters
Allegorical, satirical, and comic or serio-comic maps were one of the most popular ways of distributing political propaganda leading up to the Second World War. With countries depicted as human...
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Relive the Internet of the 1990s in 6 Gifs
Thirty years ago, on March 15, 1985, the first .com domain name—symbolics.com—was registered by the technology company Symbolics, marking the birth of the commercial internet. But things started...
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7 of the Most Horrible Technology Sounds
Not long ago, I asked you for your picks of the worst sounds that technology has cursed us with. You answered with the shrill, shreiking screams of text across the internet. And here are a few of the...
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The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch
Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch and others are just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here's a...
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5 Unsettling Works of Encryption Art
Encryption is the process of encoding a message, and today we have incredibly sophisticated software and algorithms that make our encrypted messages almost impossible to decode. But how does it work?...
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Microsoft's Age-Guessing Tool Takes On History's Most Iconic Portraits
Microsoft’s How-Old.net site has quickly become an internet sensation after it was introduced last week at the company’s annual Build Developer Conference. We tested the software with some famous faces...
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The Space Artist Who Perfectly Painted All Our Cosmic Dreams
John Conrad Berkey (August 13, 1932 – April 29, 2008) was probably the best known and loved space artist who ever lived on this planet. You may have seen the world-famous American illustrator’s work on...
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Here's Your Chance To Own This Legendarily Weird Star Wars Poster Art
All serious Star Wars fans know the work of Tibor Helényi. The Hungarian painter, who sadly passed away last year, created some of the most-hated and beloved posters for the original Star Wars trilogy....
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The Beautiful Art That Helped Inspire Space Travel
Chesley Bonestell was born long before the flight of the first airplane, and yet he’s well-known as the most influential people in aerospace art. The painter, designer and illustrator died the year of...
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20 Incredible Images of Atomic Age Infrastructure
This year, we saw top-secret photos of the birth of the atom bomb finally declassified. The photos of how the US government used that technology after World War II are just as interesting. Read more...
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Doctor Who In A 1989 Notebook Ad, And 12 More Wacky Hungarian TV Spots
Do you love old television ads? Preferably from ex-socialist countries? Then this is the right stuff for you! YourTuber Hol van Ato has just uploaded more than one hundred funny, weird and grotesque...
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Eclair Bandersnatch: Street Artist for the Snowden Age
Walk pretty much anywhere in San Francisco’s SoMa, Haight or Mission neighborhoods, and you’ll see one of Eclair Bandersnatch’s glittery stencils, often featuring “Saint Snowden” or Chelsea Manning. We...
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17 Spectacular Photos of This Year's Ongoing Perseid Meteor Shower
The best meteor shower of the year is upon us right now. If you go outside to a dark enough place, far from the city lights, you may spot tons of shooting stars during the annual Perseid meteor shower....
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