species of the week

Dendronephthya

biology, ecology & nature, feature on home page, publishingChris Hatherill2 November 2011coral, eco/nature, sealife, SOTW, species of the week

Seana Gavin: cosmic worlds

on distant moons and remote mountaintops, crystals slowly grow starwards, while lichens, mosses and funghi creep across the landscape. mushroom clouds bloom on the horizon, while planets and insects hover under orange skies

art & photography, astronomy, feature on home page, publishing, super/weeklyChris Hatherill12 October 2011archaeoastronomy, astronomy, Seana Gavin

sample of the week

a 22.70g fragment of the Carancas meteorite

astronomy, chemistry, feature on home page, geology, publishingChris Hatherill4 October 2011meteorites, sample of the week, SOTW, species of the week

shutdown

after nearly three decades of smashing particles together, Fermilab shuts down the Tevatron

architecture, design & engineering, feature on home page, physics, publishing, super/weekly, _dateChris Hatherill30 September 2011Fermilab, physics, Tevatron

vesta

NASA begins exploring surveying Vesta, one of the largest asteroids we know of

astronomy, feature on home page, publishing, space, super/weeklyChris Hatherill23 September 2011asteroid, asteroids, Dawn spacecraft, NASA

Unknown Fields

an epic journey into the atomic and cosmic regions of the former Soviet Union

architecture, art & photography, design & engineering, ecology & nature, feature on home page, projectsChris Hatherill21 September 2011Aral Sea, Architecture Association School of Architecture, Baikonur, Chernobyl, Unknown Fields, Unknown Fields 2011

ISLAND/UNIVERSE

perched 2400m above the Atlantic ocean, surrounded by utter darkness, the observing site at the European Northern Observatory on La Palma offers astronomers some of the best views of the night sky on Earth