super/collider

all that glitters

from the ancient Aztecs to Versace’s new Spring 2018 collection, gold has transcended fashion and culture to remain relevant across millennia. now, science has discovered exactly how it forms

art & photography, astronomy, chemistry, export2, feature on home page, physics, spaceChris Hatherill25 November 2017transferComment

seeing science

a new project at the University of Maryland examines and documents the ways in which science is represented through the visual medium of photography

the cosmic desert

Chott el Djerid is a vast salt lake that extends to the stars

art & photography, chemistry, ecology & nature, feature on home page, film, space, travelChris Hatherill16 March 2017Comment

ten

a visual journey through ten years of creative science

altered states

designers Anna Fulmine and Victoria Shahrokh mix everyday objects with scientific principles to create lush, dense and vivid scenes

art & photography, chemistry, design & engineering, fashion, feature on home page, profilesBobby Jewell3 March 2016Comment

blue flowers

introducing the world's first colour-changing flowers

art & photography, biology, chemistry, ecology & nature, feature on home pageChris Hatherill12 February 2016Comment

sample of the week

it gets things into space but dinitrogen tetroxide is super dangerous

chemistry, feature on home page, publishing, spaceChris Hatherill29 October 2014sample of the week, SOTWComment

nature reserves 🌾

Laura Culham's painstaking paper sculptures of weeds are just one highlight of new show examining nature and the way humans document it

sample of the week: Malachite

used to make green paint in ancient times, Malachite is a rich green copper carbonate hydroxide mineral

chemistry, feature on home page, geology, publishingChris Hatherill19 April 2013crystals, Malachite, minerals, SOTWComment

stripes

we created a short film and detailed breakdown of Saturn's rings for Patternity's first festival of pattern – a showcase of all things stripey

material world

housing everything from delicate fulgurite structures created by lightning strikes to an ultra-dense ball of silicon nitride which can dent concrete, the Institute of Making is home to some of the world's most wondrous substances