Posts Tagged ‘Artwork’

X-Rays as Art

Posted on: March 25th, 2022 by admin

If we cast our minds back to November 1895, to Würzburg in Germany, we can see the physicist Wilhelm Röntgen […]

Comics: A Gateway to Literacy

Posted on: December 30th, 2016 by admin 4 Comments

The American cartoonist Art Spiegelman has referred to comics as “a gateway to literacy,” but they can also, of course, stimulate laughter. […]

Animations Bring Ideas to Life

Posted on: December 9th, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

A few years ago my wife and I were visiting our daughter and family in the USA and we took […]

And Now for the Medical Selfie

Posted on: September 25th, 2015 by admin

In ancient Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter, well known for his beauty. He was a proud man, obsessed with his own […]

Café Scientifique

Posted on: April 17th, 2015 by admin 1 Comment

The Public Understanding of Science is a British-based movement that supported the establishment of Café Scientifique in the late 1990s. It is an idea […]

The Art of X-Rays

Posted on: October 17th, 2014 by admin 2 Comments

© Arie Van ‘t Riet Working alone in his laboratory in Würzburg, Germany in November 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered that invisible cathode rays, generated […]

A Race Still Unfinished

Posted on: March 28th, 2014 by admin 1 Comment

Today marked the publication of a special section on breast cancer in Science, the prestigious journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. […]

Colours of Hope

Posted on: February 14th, 2014 by admin

Seaside of Amsterdam Love Beyond Words Colours of Trust and Hope. All images copyright: The Max Foundation Maximiliano Rivarola, born in […]

Shining a Light on the Truth

Posted on: December 30th, 2011 by admin

Bathurst, a village in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, is the setting for this final blog of 2011. It was […]