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Maker Faire Awards ImagineScope Blue Ribbon
February 28th, 2012 | Articles, News, News & Views, Technology | Alexis | No Comments
ISF is excited to receive the Maker Faire Editor’s Choice Ribbon for the ImagineScope, which was designed by Luis Violante, a graduate student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU. The award is given to projects that “demonstrate great creativity, ingenuity and innovation.” ISF unveiled the ImagineScope last fall at the Maker Faire in [...]
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Swiss Launch Space Janitor
February 28th, 2012 | Articles, News, News & Views, Sci-Fi, Technology | Alexis | No Comments
Imagine a garbage man in space! Since the issue of space junk has been brought to light recently, cosmic garbage collection will be seen as a necessity in the near future if we are to explore space and continue using satellite communication. Fortunately, a solution is within reach, and it won’t require launching garbage men [...]
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Science Films at the Oscars
February 27th, 2012 | Events, Interview, News, Past Submissions, Sci-Fi, Special Screening, Technology, Television, Uncategorized | admin | No Comments
Ever since Einstein published his theory of relativity in 1916, the idea of time travel has been accepted as hypothetically possible. The theory became a muse for the arts and sciences. From scientists we got black holes and wormholes, and the artists became better equipped to add to a theme that dates back to ancient [...]
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The Drunken Fruit Fly
February 20th, 2012 | Articles, News, News & Views | Alexis | No Comments
Imagine getting smashed at a frat party to get rid of a stomach bug. While some people swear that a shot of whisky will ward away a sore throat or a minor infection, it turns out that for fruit flies getting drunk is a matter of life or death. Death for fruit flies comes in [...]
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Science Expression Film Competition
February 12th, 2012 | Articles, Festival, News, News & Views, Programs, Sponsors, Submissions | Alexis | No Comments
University College Dublin & The National Film School, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology (IADT) have developed a collaborative competition to create films about science in Ireland. The teams will be encouraged to create films that will have a strong visual dynamic, perhaps challenging cinematic boundaries and conventions. Stories will be imaginative, provocative, [...]
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NOW ACCEPTING FILM SUBMISSIONS!
January 31st, 2012 | Articles, Events, Featured, Festival, Press, Programs | Alexis | No Comments
In collaboration with the University College Dublin, Imagine Science Films will program the first dedicated science film festival to be held in Dublin, Ireland — July 2012. UCD Imagine Science Film Festival is a national exploration of science through film and digital media. Working with Irish partners from the science, media and film sectors, UCD [...]
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CARBON: An Installation by Charles Lindsay
January 26th, 2012 | Articles, Artists in Residence, News, News & Views | Alexis | No Comments
car•bon [kahr-buhn] (noun): A widely distributed element that is the physical basis of all living organisms. Carbon atoms are able to link with each other and with other atoms to form infinite varietes of chains and rings. Carbon occurs in a pure state as diamond and graphite, and in an impure state as charcoal. CARBON [...]
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Space Trash & the Kessler Effect
January 23rd, 2012 | Articles, News, Sci-Fi, Technology | Alexis | No Comments
Imagine snail mail and landlines being primary forms of communication! Not too hard to imagine because that was soooo fifteen years ago you might think. But Space Junk 3D, a new Imax 3-D movie that debuted on January 13 elucidates that though these forms of communication might be soooooo fifteen years from now. The movie highlights the [...]
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ISF & Cervantes Institute Present: New Culture & Science Series
January 23rd, 2012 | Articles, Events, Featured, News, Special Screening | Alexis | No Comments
On January 24th, the documentary film Searching for the First European (in Spanish with English subtitles) will be opening the new Culture & Science Series at the Cervantes Institute in Manhattan. ISF’s Producer Luis Quevedo is curating this series of events that will blend equal parts of narrative and science into a dialogue between two [...]
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ISF is Moving!
January 23rd, 2012 | Articles, Featured, Fundraising, Inspiration, News, Sponsors | Alexis | No Comments
Al Attara, in front of the the Metropolitan Exchange building on Flatbush Avenue, which he has owned for 32 years. Photo by Benjamin Norman for The New York Times The Imagine Science Films offices have relocated downtown to 33 Flatbush Avenue. The building, which from the outside is a staid and formal reminder of Brooklyn’s [...]
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Video Pick of the Week

Dr Andrew Gillis explains how an elephant fish embryo lives off a large yellow yolk sack for 7 to 10 months before hatching out as a fish.

Under the Microscope is a collection of videos that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up. They are released every Monday and Thursday and you can see them here.