Moss Can Survive the Harsh Conditions of Space

Moss Can Survive the Harsh Conditions of Space

[ad_1] In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA Space Shuttle missions grew in a breathtakingly weird shape, a sort of fuzzy spiral, an apparent reaction to the low-gravity environment. It was not as whimsical an experiment as you might think. As researchers…

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Christie’s Holds Its Nerve Mid-Marathon as the 21st Century Evening Sale Secures a Steady $123.6 Million

Christie’s Holds Its Nerve Mid-Marathon as the 21st Century Evening Sale Secures a Steady 3.6 Million

[ad_1] Yü-Ge Wang sells the top lot of the 21st Century Evening Sale: Christopher Wool’s Untitled (RIOT). Courtesy of Christie’s We are already halfway through this week’s auction marathon, and the fatigue is beginning to press in—following the adrenaline rush of the first record-setting sessions, with Sotheby’s $706 million Evening Sale and Christie’s $689 million…

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The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City

The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City

[ad_1] Each exhibition asks how urban life is shaped by extraction, measurement and the accelerating forces of the technosphere. Sara Constanca, courtesy Fiatlux Experience The Earth can never belong to any one species, says Emanuele Coccia. “And it is only if the city ceases to think of itself as an improbable “naturally human ecosystem” opposed…

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