A view From the Bridge

A frozen menagerie of yawning overhangs, rotting underbellies, humanistic curves, tumbled-over organ pipes confronts you.  Francesco Bosso’s Last Diamonds is a glorious, sombre collection of 2...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2018/04/20/last-diamonds/

The player on my left has the biochemist Maud Menten’s career well on track. Suddenly another player slaps a “stupid patriarchy” card on Menten’s head, and she has to earn her doctorate a...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2018/03/08/the-deck-women-in-science/

There’s something about a collection. We seem to harbour an urge to amass and sort as we build menageries, museums, taxonomies. And the illustrated book is a portable simulacrum, a paper cabine...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/12/20/illustrated-books-of-2017/

In terms of job satisfaction, discovering worlds must take the Sachertorte. Sibling astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, for instance, rejoiced in a haul that included Uranus, eight comets ...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/12/18/top-20-books-discovering-worlds/

If walls could speak: the saying might have been tailor-made for University College London’s new exhibition. Bricks + Mortals uses the campus buildings to tell the story of how eugenics gained ...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/12/15/bricks-mortals/

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https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/12/06/the-30-year-old-snowman/

A physicist at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Space Applications Centre, Moumita Dutta was part of the team that put a probe into Mars orbit in 2014. The instruments they designed fo...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/11/29/rocket-woman/

Albert Einstein’s field equations from his theory of general relativity combine wonderful scientific intuition with the honed concision of poetry. Yet relatively few of the culturally inclined...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/11/22/maths-and-murals/

Antimicrobial resistance has spread to London this month. The source of the outbreak? The Science Museum: its new exhibition, Superbugs, explores this monumental issue and our responses to it.�...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/11/14/superbugs/

At Mental Work, an exhibition at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne ArtLab (EPFL), visitors can drive simple machines using the force of their own thoughts. Probing the rapidly ch...

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/10/27/machines-moved-by-mind/