Astronomy
September 16, 2025

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has Discovered Potential Signs of Ancient Microbial Life on Mars

Since its arrival on Mars in February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has explored the red planet to look for clues of past life and whether it was ever habitable. Now, it seems to have found its most significant lead. According to a paper published in Nature, a sample collected by Perseverance could hold evidence of ancient microbial life. The key piece was found on an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater.

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Drawing
September 15, 2025

Chess-Inspired Drawings Fuse Fragmentation and Contrast Into a New Way of Storytelling

Chess is all about strategy and rules, but luck and fate also seem to play a hand. Sydney-based artist Sasha Krautman believes that there’s “so much symbolism to be found in one game, in one simple black and white pattern.” Drawing inspiration from the classic two-player board game, she created the Chess Collection, a series of 12 colored pencil drawings where two contrasting images share the same wooden panel.

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Installation
September 15, 2025

Giant Sleeping Dachshund Sleeps on the Floor of a Futuristic Store in Seoul

While most retail stores don’t allow dogs inside, Gentle Monster’s new headquarters and flagship, Haus Nowhere Seoul, makes an exception. Located in the Seongsu neighborhood, the 13-story, dream-like complex features an unexpected centerpiece—a giant animatronic dachshund peacefully napping in the middle of the space. With gently moving ears, a twitching nose, and a body that rises and falls to the rhythm of its breath, the mechanical canine sculpture looks incredibly lifelike.

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Painting
September 14, 2025

Artist Conjures Surreal, Futuristic Worlds Populated By a Lone Astronaut

Over two decades ago, in 1999, Scott Listfield was watching Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time, tucked inside his small studio apartment in Boston. Up until then, he was living, studying, and traveling abroad for two years, never quite finding a sense of belonging. But the film stirred something within Listfield, prompting him to turn to painting as a way to capture his experiences with adventure, solitude, and awe.

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My Modern Met

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