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Branching structures exist throughout nature — in trees, of course, but also in leaves, veins and arteries. Mitchell Newberry, a research assistant professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, writes about Dutch artist Piet Mondrian's tree paintings, which evolved from realistic depictions in context, to overlapping lines in shades of gray. “Gray Tree” uses only curved lines of various thickness superimposed on top of one another at seemingly random angles. Yet the image is unmistakably a tree," writes Newberry for @TheConversationUS. "How did Mondrian convey the sense of a tree with so little? The science of trees may offer some clues."

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#Art #Painting #PietMondrian #Trees #Biology #Branching #Science

Nikon's annual Small World competition is a beautiful mashup of art and science, celebrating the best images taken through a light microscope. This year's winner shows mouse brain tumor cells and was taken by Bruno Cisterna, a faculty member at Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia. Take a look at it, and other winning images of an electrical arc between a pin and a wire, a cannabis plant leaf, and more.

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#Photography #Science #MicroPhotography #Culture #Photos #SmallWorld

Humans' data-hoarding habit is becoming unmanageable: According to Context, we'll hit 175 zettabytes of data being stored by next year. Teams of biologists and computer scientists think they have a solution: Storing data in DNA. Here's how a team translated a photo of a dog into "nature's storage device."

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#Photography #Technology #Science #DataStorage #DNA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Most people will likely photograph this week’s Super Blue Moon on their smartphone. (The best time to capture it will be tomorrow.) Here are some tips to get the best possible picture.

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#superbluemoon #astrophotography #photography #mobilephotography