Melissa SterryFurniture Formafantasma asks: what is the global impact of wood consumption? Wallpaper* - Ali MorrisAt London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery, the Amsterdam-based duo Formafantasma head to the source when exploring the impact of the voracious consumption of wood Wood permeates our everyday lives in a variety
Melissa SterryAlgae Pablo Dorigo Sempere turns algae from Venice canals into postage stamps dezeen.com - Natashah Hitti Spanish-Italian designer Pablo Dorigo Sempere has extracted algae polluting the Venetian Lagoon and used it to make paper postage stamps for the …
Melissa Sterry Near caves and mines, corrugated pipes may interfere with bat echolocation phys.org - Kerry Benson When entrances to caves and mines—essential roosting places for bats—are blocked to prevent people from going inside, the gates often include a pipe …
Melissa SterryA look at our living sculpture of the Miami skyline - a miniature limestone structure submerged in our studio aquarium, over twitter.com
Melissa Sterry Synthetic Landscape Lab end of term presentations and conversations this week @uniinnsbruck https://t.co/CZ2IQF25ZO twitter.com
Melissa Sterry How to reduce the number of birds killed by buildings phys.org - Norman Day As high-rise cities grow upwards and outwards, increasing numbers of birds die by crashing into glass buildings each year. And of course many others …
Melissa Sterry EcoVisionairies bioniccity.co.uk On show at the Royal Academy, London from November 2019 to February 2020, Eco-Visionaries examined humanity's impact on the planet through the lenses …
Melissa SterryTechnology Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants The New York Times - Ian MorseSome of Earth’s plants have fallen in love with metal. With roots that act practically like magnets, these organisms — about 700 are known — flourish in metal-rich soils that make hundreds of thousands
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Melissa SterryScience Brawling Monkeys. Wandering Deer. Blame Coronavirus. The New York Times - Annie RothIn a video posted last week, a mob of monkeys runs around a city plaza in Thailand. Something gets thrown in the macaques’ midst and they break into a giant brawl. This horde of animals lives in Lopburi,
Melissa SterryWater Plant water saving system works like clockwork, it transpires phys.org - John Innes Centre Plants, just like humans, have circadian clocks that allow them to tell the time. In humans this cellular clockwork influences when we wake and sleep. …
Melissa SterryScience Why Birds Are the World’s Best Engineers The New York Times - Siobhan RobertsThe term “bird’s nest” has come to describe a messy hairdo, tangled fishing line and other unspeakably knotty conundrums. But that does birds an injustice. Their tiny brains, dense with neurons, produce
Melissa SterryWildlife Emboldened wild animals venture into locked-down cities worldwide The Guardian - Maanvi Singh in San FranciscoAs cities around the world mandate lockdowns, quarantines and social distancing, social media posts about animals frolicking through deserted cities have enchanted people anxiously seeking silver linings.
Melissa SterryToronto Museums She made this massive installation about infectious then COVID-19 happened | CBC Arts CBC News - Leah Collins In the middle of February — the same week COVID-19 entered the global vocabulary — Magdolene Dykstra was busy inside Toronto's Gardiner Museum, …
Melissa Sterry Deep web: Tomás Saraceno mines the symbolism of spiders at Palazzo Strozzi Wallpaper* - Tom SeymourIn ‘Aria’, his latest intervention at Palazzo Strozzi, Tomás Saraceno explores environmentalism and urban potential through the ‘wisdom’ of spiders ‘Are you arachnophobic?’ I’m asked before entering ‘Aria’,
Melissa SterrySustainability Lay Koon Tan: “No natural material comes with a technical data sheet” | Design Week designweek.co.uk - By Molly Long Lay Koon Tan: “No natural material comes with a technical data sheet” From bathtubs lined with eggshell, to Rolls Royce dashboards finished with …
Melissa Sterry Beavers cut flooding and pollution and boost wildlife populations The Guardian - Patrick BarkhamBeavers have alleviated flooding, reduced pollution and boosted populations of fish, amphibians and other wildlife, according to a five-year study of wild-living animals in Devon. The report, which will
Melissa SterryWildlife Why Aren’t More Wildlife Crossings Being Built? rei.com - Michelle Flandreau Washington’s Cascade mountain range houses some of the country’s most intriguing mammals, including black bears, cougars, grey wolves and wolverines. …
Melissa Sterry Mushrooms and orange peel: could biotech clean up the building industry? The Guardian - Nell CardCocoa husks, dried orange peel, ground blue pea flowers: the ingredients read like a tasting menu. They are, in fact, waste products that are used to make Orb – a sustainable building material that is
Melissa Sterry ‘Art into nature, nature into art’: César Manrique, the architect of Lanzarote The Guardian - Oliver Wainwright, photography by Alastair Philip WiperFusing landscape, art and architecture, Manrique embraced the island’s rugged volcanic terrain as a canvas to create works that are stunning a new generation of art lovers and tourists A sea of gnarled
Melissa Sterry Printing objects that can incorporate living organisms phys.org - David L. Chandler A method for printing 3-D objects that can control living organisms in predictable ways has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of …
Melissa Sterry Wildness in urban parks important for human well-being phys.org - University of Washington As metropolises balloon with growth and sprawl widens the footprint of cities around the world, access to nature for people living in urban areas is …
Melissa Sterry A model to design logic gates inspired by a single-cell organism techxplore.com - Ingrid Fadelli Natural phenomena and biological mechanisms can be great sources of inspiration for scientists developing mathematical approaches, computer systems …
Melissa SterryMangroves Mangrove forests protect coastlines. ‘Synthetic mangroves’ could do the same for cities. grist.org - Sierra Garcia Humans have lots of reasons to thank mangroves. These swampy, stilt-rooted trees store massive amounts of carbon on tropical shorelines, support …
Melissa Sterry Bacteria-Filled Bricks Build Themselves scientificamerican.com - Sophie Bushwick Infusing building materials with living microorganisms has already lent inanimate objects new powers. Self-healing concrete, for example, uses …
Melissa SterryCabbage Nir Meiri turns cabbage leaves into paper-like lampshades dezeen.com - Jennifer Hahn London-based studio Nir Meiri has teamed up with Indian designer Vaidehi Thakkar to create a series of lamps with shades made from red cabbage leaves. …
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