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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds +2 more
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Antiquities Theft: The Role of the Museum in Modern Symbolic Violence [PDF]
, 2019 Humans have been collecting artifacts for centuries, whether it is for their aesthetic value or for the acquisition of knowledge. However, these artifacts have, in most cases, been taken without permission from the countries of origin. Today, museums are
Amato, Meredith M.
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The public domain vs. the museum: the limits of copyright and reproductions of two-dimensional works of art [PDF]
, 2014 The problem of museums and public institutions handling reproductions of works in their collections is not only a legal question but also one of museum ethics. Public museums are committed to spreading knowledge and to making their collections accessible.
Petri, Grischka
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The study provides an extreme example of insect adaptation to highly toxic defenses of host plants, and investigates the complex strategies to resist carcinogenic aristolochic acids, including physical isolation, metabolic detoxification, and DNA repair.
Yang Luan +20 more
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Swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) species diversity and distribution in Africa: The Papilionidae collection at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020 Esther Kioko +5 more
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Cellpose+, a Morphological Analysis Tool for Feature Extraction of Stained Cell Images
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.We introduce Cellpose plus, a morphological and geometrical analysis tool for feature extraction of stained cell images built over Cellpose, a state‐of‐the‐art cell segmentation framework. We also introduce a dataset of DAPI and FITC stained cells to which our new method is applied.
Israel A. Huaman +10 more
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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland
Museum & SocietyThis paper explores the mineral specimens held by the Science and Technology department at National Museums Scotland (NMS). It examines what these objects and their provenance reveal about the Museum’s collecting methods and how they reflect and ...
Georgina Grant, Ellie Swinbank
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Materials and techniques of Islamic manuscripts
Heritage Science, 2018 Over 50 works on paper from Egypt, Iraq, Iran and Central Asia dated from the 13th to 19th centuries were examined and analyzed at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
Penley Knipe +4 more
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Airborne Particles in Museums [PDF]
, 1993 Presents one in a series of research activities aimed at a better understanding of the origin and fate of air pollution within the built ...
Harvey I. H. Liu +6 more
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Vernacular museum: communal bonding and ritual memory transfer among displaced communities [PDF]
, 2015 Eclectically curated and largely ignored by the mainstream museum sector, vernacular museums sit at the interstices between the nostalgic and the future-oriented, the private and the public, the personal and the communal.
Baudrillard Jean +29 more
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