Today is Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. And I confess, I was caught up, selfishly wondering if I got the day off. I seemed to forget the holiday’s message and what that great man stood for. Here’s a reminder:
Other than for blasting out of Earth’s gravitational pull, the rocket-powered vehicle has never gone mainstream – kind of a shame, really! But lucky for us, LIFE has a gallery of some of the more exciting tries. Maybe next century.
NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living on planet Earth, using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins and cell membranes. This changes everything. Updating live.
If you don’t work inside one, you might expect laboratory work to be humdrum. But throughout history, some spectacular scenes have occurred in labs across the world. LIFE brings us a gallery of these moments – from the impressive to the strange.
It was decided we don’t know enough about the sea. So 2,700 scientists started the Census of Marine Life, cooperating with museums, labs and aquariums across 80 countries to learn more. 10 years later, today, they’re done.
Advancing technology is always cool – but it sure isn’t always pretty. LIFE brings us a gallery of scientific scenes that remind us that science isn’t always so scientific in appearance. From dangling cats to puffed cheeks, progress is wacky.
LIFE has put together a delightful gallery of classic scientific models – reminding us of how science used to visualise everything between the human body and outer space before the age of computer imagery.
Remember as a kid you only wanted one thing at a time? A bike, a doll, a football. Now, we’re all caught up wanting everything we see, and a lot of it we don’t need. Let’s try to want less.
