Martin Rees, the British astronomer royal, noted that Penrose triggered a "renaissance" in the study of relativity in the 1960s, and that, together with a young Stephen Hawking, he helped firm up evidence for the Big Bang and black holes. "Penrose and Hawking are the two individuals who have done more than anyone else since … Continue reading The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
I decided to post this blog on this historic day (10 april, 2019) as the world has for the first time seen a picture of a "black hole". Source: "Here’s the first image of a black hole" by Brian Heater. As an artist I "painted" such a "black hole" after my meeting with the now … Continue reading Black holes: painting the invisible
Source HERE. In a groundbreaking clinical trial, a quadriplegic man moved his fingers and hand with his thoughts thanks to a brain implant developed by researchers at Ohio State University and Battelle. The paralyzed man, named Ian Burkhart, is the first of five potential participants to trial the new system which has been dubbed Neurobridge. … Continue reading Quadriplegic Man Uses Thoughts To Move His Limb
A Man Was Cured Of HIV In 2008, And Hardly Anyone Knows About It May 27, 2014 | by Justine Alford Source: HERE. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), has plagued the world for decades. Since the dawn of the epidemic, it is estimated that around 36 million people … Continue reading Timothy Ray Brown, Known As “The Berlin Patient”, Was Cured Of HIV In 2008!
Two devices have been proposed to turn the Earth's night-time infrared emissions into a source of power. At the moment the idea is a series of calculations rather than one prototype, let alone two, but the thought experiments alone were enough to win publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A crucial … Continue reading Proposed Device Could Capture Unlimited Renewable Energy From Earth’s Infared Emissions
Source: HERE .Americans spend $34 billion a year on so-called alternative medicine — botanical pills, acupuncture, energy healing, and the like — despite the fact that few of these techniques are backed by any science. Study after study has rejected the ability of such treatments to cure. But the same studies routinely find that treated … Continue reading Forget the Placebo Effect: It’s the ‘Care Effect’ That Matters
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The story of Ben Underwood, who despite being blind is able to map a detailed mental plan of his environment. Diagnosed with retinal cancer at the age of two, American Ben Underwood had his eyes removed at the age of three. He taught himself echolocation at the age of five. He was able to detect … Continue reading Ben Underwood: The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes
Source HERE Combined pill to combat malaria Malaria is spread by mosquitoes A cheap and easy-to-use pill could help combat malaria - which kills nearly 2m people a year in poor countries.The pill combines a classic malaria drug amodiaquine with a newer medicine containing artemisinin, which comes from a Chinese plant. Developed by pharmaceutical company … Continue reading A cheap and easy-to-use pill could help combat malaria – which kills nearly 2m people a year in poor countries.
This scientist Richard Lewisohn (July 12, 1875 - August 11, 1961)'s work led to the storage of blood in blood banks, a discovery that is credited with saving over 1 billion lives! Richard Lewisohn (July 12, 1875 - August 11, 1961) Before him, physicians in the United States, during the 1880s, transfused the milk of … Continue reading This scientist has saved one BILLION lives!
Jonas Salk's vaccine has saved over one million lives (1,010,000). "During the first half of the 20th century, no illness inspired more dread and panic than did polio. It came in epidemics and mainly infected children in the summer, creating great scares for parents. Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. The … Continue reading This scientist has saved over one MILLION lives
This scientist Karl Landsteiner discovered that different people's blood had different characteristics that made it "incompatible" with other people's blood that didn't carry those same traits. He discovered the A, B, and O blood types. His discovery of the differences and identification of the groups that were alike made it possible for blood transfusions to … Continue reading This scientist has saved one BILLION lives!
These scientists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who invented the Synthetic Fertilizer, have saved over 2,720,000,000 lives! (yes that is over two billion lives!). Source: HERE Carl Bosch (August 27, 1874 - April 26, 1940) Fritz Haber (December 9, 1868 - January 30, 1935)
Researchers at Virginia Tech have successfully created a sugar-powered fuel cell that has an energy storage density of 596 amp-hours per kilo — or “one order of magnitude” higher than lithium-ion batteries. This fuel cell is refillable with a solution of maltodextrin, and its only by products are electricity and water. Read more: http://ow.ly/sTGxJ
https://youtu.be/IkePKIWctYU My painting on this theme, with an inspirational introduction from HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS (Season 1 - 2010). Carl Sagan and his wife told their daughter: "'You are alive right this second. That is an amazing thing,' they told me. When you consider the nearly infinite number of forks in the road that lead … Continue reading "Stardust" (2013) © Yves Messer
We see everything in perspective thanks to the shape of our eyes. Perspective, in art, is any technique employed to represent three-dimensional objects (as in space) on a two-dimensional surface the way our eyes naturally see them. When you look anywhere, you could notice a progressive diminution of perceived objects: the farther, the smaller they look, they appear to us. This is the … Continue reading Principles of perspective
Based on my experience as portrait painter: the human head is facing us vertically to the ground (proportions change when the subject is looking upwards or downwards) * the head is inscribed within a rectangle with approximate proportions of 2/3 or 3/5 (roughly those of a letterhead). I found these proportions after using many photographs of people with short hairs (or … Continue reading Human face’s proportions
"The adventure of our science of physics is a perpetual attempt to recognize that the different aspects of nature are really different aspects of the same thing." -- Richard Feynman Portrait of Richard Feynman (2010). © Yves Messer. Who was Richard Feynman? Richard Feynman (1918 –1988), one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of this … Continue reading Richard Feynman; the scientist and the artist.
August 7, 2010 at 22:53 Richard Feynman (1918 –1988), one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of this last century was also one of our greatest minds. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED), jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. He developed … Continue reading Portrait of Richard Feynman
2009 © Yves Messer (click on this picture for zooming and more information) My portrait had the ambition to not only convey Professor Hawking's sense of determination in life ("against the odds") but also to include some of his scientific ideas (see full picture below). That his greatness has also to do with his intellectual struggle with his … Continue reading The "Other Portrait" of Professor Stephen Hawking
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