NurdleNet » art from science http://www.nurdle.net Celebrating quirky Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:45:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Art from science 2009 http://www.nurdle.net/2009/07/art-from-science-2009/ http://www.nurdle.net/2009/07/art-from-science-2009/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:00:37 +0000 Juliet Chase http://www.nurdle.net/?p=603

Princeton’s third Art of Science competition is online and the winners announced.  All of the images were coincidental to scientific research, not created as art.  If you’ve never considered the artistic merit of embryonic squid, here’s your chance.  Can you tell what the object is before reading the captions?

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The sound of words may affect how food tastes – could there be a word that would make brussel sprouts taste better?

Tetris turns 25 this week

Ember – the cutest little military robot you ever did see

The art of neutrino detectors

The new baby anteater – you probably haven’t associated cute with anteaters before…

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Just by watching their above ground behavior you might not think ants would have such complex and regulated environments downstairs.  If it didn’t involve killing them, ant colony castings would probably catch on as the next art craze.  But there’s no reason for the non-scientists not to enjoy the aesthetic aspects of scientific research.  Watch the process in the video clip from CBS Sunday Morning.

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