My latest piece explores the machines the photographers visited, and what tell us about the nature of scientific imagination.

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The Global Physics Photowalk sends photographers inside physics laboratories around the world. Their images answer questions like: what does a neutrino detector look like? Or a machine that winds cables for @cern.bsky.social? Or a tunnel carved a mile beneath South Dakota to detect mark matter?

Elegant Machines for the Unseen Science is often portrayed as rational, abstract, numerical. But spend any time inside a particle physics laboratory and that distinction collapses. These are places of extraordinary aesthetic forc…

To me, physics laboratories are some of the most beautiful places on earth. Beauty, for a physicist, is not incidental, it is often how they know they are on the right track.
inspired by a piece in quantamagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the labs featured in the latest Global Physics Photowalk.

Annotation of all the stars (and the planet Venus) visible in the background around the image of Earth in the new nighttime view of our planet from Artemis II.

There is a full universe behind that wonderful new Artemis II "Night Marble" view of Earth.

Here's a breakdown of the stars (and one planet) in the field of view. Look at us! Just a planet hanging out in space.

Annotation by Rodrigo González Peinado. 🧪🔭

Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological Feeling Melancholy and Milkomeda: Notes on a Cosmological Feeling

Some thoughts on melancholia as a cosmological feeling and who or what might be around to witness the merging of Andromeda and the Milky Way - Milkomeda.

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Five years ago this would have sounded like science fiction. Now someone has assembled an AI, genomics and mRNA treatment pipeline.

It hints at a new hybrid model of biomedical science where individuals, universities and AI systems begin working together.

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Medicine’s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology Medicine’s New Frontier: An Unusual Convergence of AI and Biology By Honor Harger15 March 2026 A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entre…

A strange but genuinely amazing story resurfaced in the news this week. An Australian tech entrepreneur, Paul Conyngham, used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a personalised mRNA cancer treatment for his dog after she was diagnosed with an aggressive tumour.

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It brings together artists, designers, filmmakers and architects to explore how futures are imagined - and made.
From speculative worlds and Indigenous cosmologies to Afrofuturism, Asian futurism, and visions shaped by young people in Singapore, the show offers a more hopeful view of the future.

This is the final weekend of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum

After months of inviting audiences to imagine futures beyond the familiar dystopias, the exhibition closes this weekend.

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Happy Lunar New Year!

Welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse.

Hoping the horse carries success and swift progress, and that fire brings light, renewal, and joy.

Wishing everyone good health, and happiness in the months ahead.

Gong xi fa cai!

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What does this round of psychosis look like?

That’s dark. It was hard to watch.

The reflection presents the philosophers, artists, scientists and writers who have inspired my thinking in creating the Forms of Life season of exhibitions and programmes, including @edyong209.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @sarahichioka.bsky.social

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I’ve just written a new piece: Forms of Life: Curating Encounters Beyond the Human.
It sets out the ideas behind ArtScience Museum’s 2026 season. Forms of Life is about the lives we share the planet with - animals, plants, and machines.

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It launches with Insects: Microsculptures Magnified which opens today, and NOX: Confessions of a Machine a show about AI.
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Forms of Life includes film programmes, workshops, conferences & festivals that reveal the lives of others and imagine strange kinships.

I am pleased to announce ArtScience Museum’s 2026 season:

Forms of Life: Beyond the Human

The year-long season explores multispecies worlds, machine intelligence, insects, ocean life, plants and fungi. It includes exhibitions and programmes about entanglement, coexistence, and other forms of life.

So Argus finds things, DSA listens for violent radio events, and LFAST helps explain what those discoveries actually are.

This is privately funded, curiosity-driven science - rare in a space sciences sector where private investment skews more towards extraction and spectacle.

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The 3 Earth-based instruments are notable. Argus uses 1,200 optical telescopes to detect changes in visible light.
DSA scans radio waves for brief, energetic signals. LFAST analyses near-infrared spectra to reveal what distant objects are made of.

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The headline is Lazuli. This is the first privately funded space telescope. With a mirror much larger than Hubble’s and a possible launch as early as 2029, it will study exoplanets, dark energy, and wide-field cosmology, advancing curiosity driven science.

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Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space "We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price."

There are some very interesting moves happening in astronomy early this year. Eric Schmidt is now funding a serious slice of future infrastructure. Through Schmidt Sciences, 4 major instruments, 3 on Earth and 1 in space, are redefining observational astronomy. 🧪🌟

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Opening later in January, NOX: Confessions of a Machine by Lawrence Lek explores machinic intelligence and non-human systems.

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Together with Insects, it forms part of ArtScience Museum’s 2026 programme looking beyond the human.

Insects: Microsculptures Magnified opens at ArtScience Museum on 17 Jan. Curated with the American Museum of Natural History and enriched by research from Singapore, it bridges photography and contemporary science to reveal insects as vital ecological actors.

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A new year is an opportunity to reframe how we see the world.

So I love @whoi.edu’s Ocean World:

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Thinking from the ocean outward reveals a planet defined not by the land but by the sea - a planetary system shaped by currents, chemistry, and deep time.

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What a bizarre piece of censorship. I’m not even sure the president would deny this.

“Radio polars” are a magnetic white dwarf (the remnant of a Sun-like star) and a cooler red dwarf locked in a tight orbit.

Discovered through low-frequency radio astronomy, they act like unseen lighthouses, guiding our understanding of a dynamic, layered cosmos.

Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky By Honor Harger 23 November 2025 Two stars orbit each other so closely that their surfaces seem almost aware of one another. One is a dense white dwarf – the r…

Some stars speak not in light, but in radio. I just wrote about a newly discovered class of binary stars, what I call “radio polars”, first identified by Iris de Ruiter and her team. They were also explored by @astrobites.bsky.social in a recent article.
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Didn’t DESI already discover this?

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My new essay, It’s All Really There: The Electromagnetic Life of the Universe, explores how we live inside a vast ocean of plasma and radio waves. How everything from weather to light to radio signals, moves within the same electromagnetic field, and, as Feynman said, “it’s all really there!”

A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second.
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
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It brings together 105 works by more than 40 designers, artists, filmmakers, architects, and writers, who explore the future from multiple perspectives from Asia, Africa and the Pacific, before finally arriving in Singapore - where we are.