Science
Ecotron : the future of nature in a test tube
CNRS created a new scientific instrument, the Ecotron, to study the reaction of nature to unusual climatic conditions…to the environmental changes scheduled by the IPCC in 2050…
Photos and text by Hubert Raguet/LightMediation
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Space tourism : these projects are crazy but true !
The idea is not new. It is the dream of many of us: to someday travel into space. A dream soon achieved through several space tourism projects which seem more crazy than each other and yet close to being realized.
A story by David Marquette/LightMediation
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Scientists in China struggle to save the last 1000 pandas
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, is the heart of the country’s campaign to save its national emblem from extinction. It has been the pioneer in using artificial insemination to reproduce the notoriously frigid and infertile animal.
Photos and text by Justin Jin/LightMediation
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The Lost Leonardo
An Italian art expert says he is on the verge of discovering a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece hidden in a secret cavity behind a palace wall. « The Battle of Anghiari » is one of the most enduring mysteries of the art world. This story is a cross between a Dan Brown novel and an Indiana Jones adventure.
Photos and text by Eric Vandeville/LightMediation
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« Lightgraff »: when Photography and Writing merge…
Here, the definition of the word photography is taken literaly: to draw or to write (graphos) with light (photos).By the time, writing arts have never stopped evolving. Lightgraff is part of this process. After having used stones,reeds, inks, paints and sprays… we use light.Lightgraff is a new langage, that of light.
©Guillaume J. Plisson/Brusk/LightMediation *These photos are taken at night,without any computer retouching *
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Roman treasures of the Rhone river
For 2000 years, archeological objects of an inestimable value have been sleeping in the river bed of the Rhone River underneath the quay of the historic city of Arles, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A team of archeologists and divers has been digging patiently in these dark waters since twenty years in order to return their discoveries to the light of day.They are being presented to the public for the first time in the exhibition « César, le Rhône pour mémoire », the happy ending to an adventure story of a determined scientific quest in a battle against the ever-charging currents of a capricious river.
Photos by Remi Benali-Patrick Landmann/LightMediation Text by Alexie Valois
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Snail caviar, a new wonder of taste
Gastronomy, like haute couture, is a matter of taste. And, when ideas and innovation are combined with delight and flavour the good fortune make an appearance. Sylvie and Dominique Pierru gather week after week, with unparalleled care and unequaled softness the small white pearls that kindly gastropods were willing to lay.
Photos by Patrick Landmann/LightMediation
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Real Bubble Magic
Tom Noddy, the soap bubble expert, builds ephemeral structures,light and transparent. His magic bubbles astonish an international public; mathematicians and physicians alike are very seriously studying the scientific properties of his creations.
Photos and text by Olivier Blaise/LightMediation
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Doomsday vault protects World’s seeds near North Pole.
The Global Seed Vault, opened in February 2008, is receiving on a 5 term basis, shipments of 100 million seeds (4,5 million samples) that originated in over 100 countries. The Norvegian Government has invest in the futur.In October 2008, an expedition organised by ICRISAT and the Global Crop Diversity Trust will be set from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to the Island Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen, depositing 20000 samples of 5 varieties of Indian seeds (Sorghum, peanuts…). Cultivated,identified,counted,and dried, the seeds conserved in the Norvegia nvault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world.
A Photo story by Caroline Poiron/LigthMediation
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The chemical gardens.
Since the dawn of time, explaining the origin of life from nothingness has generated much passion and polemic.Over a century ago, Stéphane Leduc,a French professor of medicine,attempted to duplicate this phenomenon. His work led to the invention of synthetic biology which created a great stir among the scientific community at the time.However, was he really misguided? What can be said is that the work carried out by this ingenious experimenter opened the way for as much scholarly research as violent debate.At the outer edges of science, on the borders of metaphysics, two chemists and a photographer have copied this scientist’s work. They have reinterpreted the illegible scribbles of the mad scholar in the light of the fabulous phenomenon of osmosis. An insight into their secret laboratory over a three-day period.
Photos ©Stephane Querbes Text ®Etienne Colomb/K-Minos Original idea ©R.E Eastes -C. Darrigan
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