Exoskeleton

Estate Brassaï/RMN-Grand Palais/Adagp, ParisBrassaï: Dora Maar in her workshop, rue de Savoie, 1943 Theres an eerie moment, as you emerge from the rue Saint-Merri, with its bars and pavement cafés and look down into the square before the Centre Pompidou. Bel…

Thanks to the landscape-shifting success of properties like Game of Thrones and Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, we’ve entered a golden age of sci-fi and fantasy being developed for film and television. It seems that nearly every network and studio has snatched u…

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced its annual shortlist of the best new architecture from around the world. Featuring a whopping 534 buildings hailing from 70 countries, it's a truly global event that includes projects from some of the best f…

Hello and good day, you good animals. It is I, a collection of elements that were once spread out across a vast and silent universe and one day came together in this improbably sentient, miraculously animate skin suit that is here interpreting the esoteric me…

An incredible video shows the moment a shrimp bursts out of its old exoskeleton in a process called 'molting'. The video was taken by an unknown spectator who captured the rare process in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.  Molting is one of the most important physiolog…

Chinese researchers have found two previously unknown species of parasitic wasps in a swarm hovering 11,000 feet (3,400m) above the sea in Tibet. The two species look very similar to each other because they belonged to the same genus (Microplitis), according…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream. All over the planet, nature is starting to behave in some very unusual ways.  And unfortunately for us, a lot of the changes that we are witnessing in nature are quite …

Is glassier really greener? UBC architecture grad Genta Ishimura researched Vancouvers windows for his masters thesis. Photo by Dexter McMillan. Tea leaves wont reveal the truth. Instead, study Vancouvers windows and youll see that the citys aspirations to b…

TORONTO & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIONIK Laboratories Corp. (OTCQB:BNKL) ("BIONIK" or the "Company"), a robotics company focused on providing rehabilitation and assistive technology solutions to individuals with neurological and mobility challenges from …

The day that squeamish humans -- and exterminators -- have long feared may have come at last: Cockroaches are becoming invincible. Or at least German cockroaches (Blattella germanica) are, according to a new study. Researchers have found that these creatures,…