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THE VISUAL ARCHIVE / 90 FRAMES

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Artwork from the investigations, newest first. Open an image to see it larger. Every frame has a story separating the measured science from what the artwork imagines.

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Concept artwork. Cristae make the mitochondrial energy system a story about boundaries and gradients. — Energy Along a Folded MembraneCristae make the mitochondrial energy system a story about boundaries and gradients.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. A shielding experiment asks how a changed magnetic environment affects fruit-fly physiology. — Life Inside a Weaker FieldA shielding experiment asks how a changed magnetic environment affects fruit-fly physiology.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. An infrared hypothesis imagines another route between physical surroundings and cellular energy. — A Vibration Still Being TestedAn infrared hypothesis imagines another route between physical surroundings and cellular energy.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. Mitochondrial DNA fragments can leave traces in nuclear chromosomes. — DNA Beyond Its Old AddressMitochondrial DNA fragments can leave traces in nuclear chromosomes.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. A bacterial response can retain the effects of earlier conditions without a brain. — A Past Carried in ChemistryA bacterial response can retain the effects of earlier conditions without a brain.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. Earlier conditions can change the delay before a bacterium begins collective movement. — The Swarm That Starts SoonerEarlier conditions can change the delay before a bacterium begins collective movement.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. Daughter cells can inherit a temporary chemical influence as well as genetic instructions. — Division Does Not Erase EverythingDaughter cells can inherit a temporary chemical influence as well as genetic instructions.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. A microfluidic setting makes individual bacterial histories available for repeated measurement. — One Cell Through Changing ConditionsA microfluidic setting makes individual bacterial histories available for repeated measurement.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. An imagined hospital connects cellular stress history with an infection research question. — Why a Retained Response Might MatterAn imagined hospital connects cellular stress history with an infection research question.The story behind this image

Concept artwork. An ancient shoreline places a modern experiment beside a much older metabolic history. — Iron Before the Familiar AtmosphereAn ancient shoreline places a modern experiment beside a much older metabolic history.The story behind this image

Conceptual precision clock centered on a glowing atomic nucleus — A Clock Deeper Than the ElectronThorium-229's nuclear transition is real; the glowing apparatus is an interpretation of a precision experiment.The story behind this image

Conventional atomic clocks use transitions associated with electrons, shown at left, while a nuclear clock reaches far deeper into the atom. — Two Places to Keep TimeElectron and nuclear transitions offer different frequency references.The story behind this image

One approach embeds enormous numbers of thorium-229 nuclei inside a transparent calcium fluoride crystal. — A Crystal Filled With Clock NucleiA thorium-doped solid gives the laser many nuclei to interrogate at once.The story behind this image

The crucial step is feedback. — The Loop That Makes a Clock RunAbsorption changes become a correction to a drifting laser.The story behind this image

A nuclear clock may eventually become more than a timekeeper. — Listening for a Changing TickA running nuclear clock can constrain certain periodic frequency variations.The story behind this image

Future precision clocks could become part of global networks for comparing gravitational potential, testing relativity and searching for changes in fundamental physics. — Time Compared Across the WorldNetworks of clocks can compare frequency shifts and gravitational conditions.The story behind this image

Conceptual prehistoric Greek landscape with distant unnamed human figures — The Lives the Ground Cannot NameAn imagined Ice Age landscape surrounds genuine archaeological traces while leaving the people unidentified.The story behind this image

Modern excavation in the Megalopolis basin has exposed sediments containing traces of human activity roughly 700,000 years old. — Excavating a Buried Greek LandscapeExcavations in the Megalopolis basin expose traces of a much older environment.The story behind this image

At Marathousa 1, cut-marked elephant bones record ancient butchery. — An Elephant in the Archaeological RecordCut marks on bones are evidence of ancient butchery at Marathousa 1.The story behind this image

A shaped piece of wood preserves a kind of technology that usually decays beyond recognition. — Technology That Usually DisappearsPreserved shaped wood reveals a rare trace of ancient woodworking.The story behind this image

Claw-marked wood records a large carnivore at the ancient lakeshore. — Another Visitor at the LakeshoreClaw marks in wood suggest a large carnivore shared the ancient environment.The story behind this image

Calcite attached to the Petralona cranium offers evidence about its age, although the dating and interpretation remain debated. — Mineral Crust as a ClockCalcite on the Petralona cranium offers constraints on its age.The story behind this image

The Apidima fragments have prompted competing accounts of who occupied this part of Greece and when. — A Fragmented Human HistoryApidima has produced contested interpretations of ancient human presence.The story behind this image

Rising seas covered terrain that may once have offered routes through the Aegean. — The Routes Beneath Rising WaterChanging sea levels altered possible paths through the Aegean.The story behind this image

Conceptual view of the later Hapcheon impact basin as a quiet landscape — The Basin After the FireHapcheon's later life is the story: a studied impact basin, lake deposits, and evidence for microbial structures.The story behind this image

A large asteroid impact releases tremendous energy into the crust, fracturing rock, melting material and reorganizing the surrounding landscape. — When an Impact Opens the CrustA large impact can fracture and heat rocks beneath a basin.The story behind this image

After the impact, the basin filled with water and may have supported hydrothermal circulation driven by heat stored in the fractured crust below. — A Lake Above Warm RockPost-impact water and heat may have sustained a hydrothermal setting.The story behind this image

Stromatolites are layered structures created through interactions between microbial communities and sediments. — Layer by Layer at the ShoreStromatolite-like structures point to interactions of microbes and sediments.The story behind this image

Microbial mats can interact with minerals and sediments to build layered structures over long periods of time. — The Living Edge of a Mineral LakeMicrobial mats can alter and trap sediment in layered structures.The story behind this image

The stromatolites described in the study contain chemical clues linking their growth environment to both hydrothermal activity and extraterrestrial material. — Chemistry Left in the LayersGeochemical clues connect the crater’s altered environment and impact material.The story behind this image