Tag: biological sciences
Artistic expressions of 21st-century change
Suzanne Anker is an artist and theorist from New York City, chair of the School of Visual Arts’ Fine Arts Department. She is also founder and director of the School’s Bio Art Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility which gives artists a place to bring together scientific and artistic methods to create a dialogue concerning the current state of nature and science. […]
Decoding fibre secrets of two jute species
Jute is a type of bast fibre plant, of which there are more than hundred species. Jute is used as an affordable natural fibre source for many human purposes. There are only two commercially cultivated species, which have unique fibre characteristics, but they cannot be cross-bred. To gain insight into specific traits of these two species, Basic and Applied Research […]