The 44th Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition celebrates the best the world of microscopic photography has to offer. Check out the gallery of winning images here.
The Mediated Matter Group at MIT have created Fiberbots, robots that use a mix of fiber and resin to build towers underneath themselves. The bots use sensors and algorithms to colaborate with eachother while adjusting the length and curvature of the towers they build. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this).
Last week we had jumping robots, this week we have dancing robots! Boston Dynamics released another robot video, this time of its SpotMini quadruped robot dancing to Bruno Mars.
Stripe is partnering with The World Bank to produce a digital entrepreneurship index, to allow policymakers to access self-reported entrepreneurship data from around the world.
This week NAWR hosted our final concert with The Swansea International Festival 2018. We were treated to two amazing performances from R.Seiliog and Accü. Check out my photos from the concert here.
Noah Veltman of Netflix has produced this nice data visualisation of how different news websites layout and priorise their editorial, ads and sponsored content.
Hen Ogledd have released their latest track Sky Burial and accompanying music video. Check out their upcoming tour dates for information on when you can see them live!
The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD) have produced this very good rendition of Journey's Don't Stop Believing. Yes, I know the song has been done to death, but this is an enjoyable cover :-)
We have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change. The IPCC released their Global Warming of 1.5°C report which may well turn out to be one of the most important documents of modern times. The report describes the predicted effects of a 1.5°C increase in global temperature above the pre-industrial average versus a 2°C increase, written by 91 co-authors across 40 countries and backed by 6000 scientific references.
