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Japanese artist Kazumasa Nagai's posters put animal spirits at the heart of a floating modern world.

Iron girders, gay Paris, and the crackle of radio transmissions: today's hit in the history of science and technology.

Mastering the musical cactus requires not only a deft ear, but a good supply of bandages.

The people of the Siberian taiga, like the creatures they hunt and trap, are kept busy trying not to get bloodied or frozen, in a documentary narrated by Werner Herzog. Video after the jump.

A picture of the instruments arrayed in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which was completed in Antarctica at the end of last year, only hints at the massive scale of the science involved.

To brand a normally-invisible gadget, it pays to know your cognoscenti.

The trouble with the Rebel Alliance: no exit strategy. Video after the jump

To demo their Javascript framework for the Kinect, this MIT Media Lab team made a gestural web browser interface. Insert gratuitous tech-blogger Minority-Report rave here.

"Imagination... must not be underestimated as a valuable means to advance knowledge towards new frontiers," say the authors of a new study on the possible consequences of the discovery of extraterrestrial life; we couldn't agree more.

Moons of Uranus, a trans-Pacific solo flight, and the health dangers of smoking: today's hits in the history of science and technology.