Honor Harger
@honorharger.bsky.social
Director of ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.
Some stars speak not in light, but in radio. I just wrote about a newly discovered class of binary stars, what I call “radio polars”, first identified by Iris de Ruiter and her team. They were also explored by @astrobites.bsky.social in a recent article.
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Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky
Hidden Beacons in the Radio Sky By Honor Harger 23 November 2025 Two stars orbit each other so closely that their surfaces seem almost aware of one another. One is a dense white dwarf – the r…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Some stars speak not in light, but in radio. I just wrote about a newly discovered class of binary stars, what I call “radio polars”, first identified by Iris de Ruiter and her team. They were also explored by @astrobites.bsky.social in a recent article.
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A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second.
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
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That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A flash of red light over New Zealand: a rare sprite rising 90km above a storm, gone in a tenth of a second.
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/i...
That image sent me back into my early work with radio astronomy and to how art and science make the electromagnetic life of the Universe perceptible.
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In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning.
At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that.
Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future.
I've written some reflections on it here:
At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that.
Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future.
I've written some reflections on it here:
Another World is Possible
Another World is Possible By Honor Harger 20 September 2025 In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning. As my friend Liam Young says, it’s as if we are…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
In recent years, the future has come to feel less like a promise and more like a warning.
At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that.
Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future.
I've written some reflections on it here:
At ArtScience Museum, our new exhibition, offers a counterpoint to that.
Another World is Possible is a show about how we imagine, and then build, the future.
I've written some reflections on it here:
I’ve just spent a few days aboard OceanXplorer, the remarkable research vessel of OceanX, which has been docked in Singapore for the OceanX Summit.
It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine.
oxsummit.oceanx.org
It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine.
oxsummit.oceanx.org
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I’ve just spent a few days aboard OceanXplorer, the remarkable research vessel of OceanX, which has been docked in Singapore for the OceanX Summit.
It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine.
oxsummit.oceanx.org
It’s an astonishing place to think about the ocean, part science laboratory, part film studio, part dream machine.
oxsummit.oceanx.org
I’ve been reflecting on the themes of our exhibition, Another World Is Possible
From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care.
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From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
October 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I’ve been reflecting on the themes of our exhibition, Another World Is Possible
From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
From Syafiq Halid’s sonic landscapes to Torlarp Larpjaroensook’s handmade spaceships, the show opens with a Southeast Asian futurism shaped by memory, craft, and care.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
Liam Young’s cinematic worlds are at the heart of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum. We’re proud to present the global premiere of World Machine, Liam’s new work tracing Asia’s role in AI. Alongside it are Planet City, After the End and The Great Endeavour.
September 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Liam Young’s cinematic worlds are at the heart of Another World Is Possible at ArtScience Museum. We’re proud to present the global premiere of World Machine, Liam’s new work tracing Asia’s role in AI. Alongside it are Planet City, After the End and The Great Endeavour.
I’m thrilled to announce that Another World Is Possible is now open at ArtScience Museum. Co-curated by me, my team and Liam Young, this is a show about how we imagine the future.
At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity
At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I’m thrilled to announce that Another World Is Possible is now open at ArtScience Museum. Co-curated by me, my team and Liam Young, this is a show about how we imagine the future.
At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity
At a time when dystopias seem to be all around us, we counter by presenting futures shaped by resilience and creativity
I’m excited to announce In the Ether: A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology, opening 6 Sep at ArtScience Museum. Marking the International Year of Quantum Science, we bring quantum physics into public space together with CQT and Ethereum Singapore.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I’m excited to announce In the Ether: A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology, opening 6 Sep at ArtScience Museum. Marking the International Year of Quantum Science, we bring quantum physics into public space together with CQT and Ethereum Singapore.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...
It’s important to operate with care and respect when bringing futures work into places where it’s already unfolding, respecting those who hold space and nurture communities. I’d like to think that when we step into each other’s worlds, we do so with regard for the people tending the ground.
September 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It’s important to operate with care and respect when bringing futures work into places where it’s already unfolding, respecting those who hold space and nurture communities. I’d like to think that when we step into each other’s worlds, we do so with regard for the people tending the ground.
I’m delighted to announce that our next exhibition at ArtScience Museum is Another World Is Possible.
It’s a show close to my heart, inviting us to imagine hopeful, distinctly Asian futures through art, design, film, and architecture. It opens on 13 September.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
It’s a show close to my heart, inviting us to imagine hopeful, distinctly Asian futures through art, design, film, and architecture. It opens on 13 September.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
August 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m delighted to announce that our next exhibition at ArtScience Museum is Another World Is Possible.
It’s a show close to my heart, inviting us to imagine hopeful, distinctly Asian futures through art, design, film, and architecture. It opens on 13 September.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
It’s a show close to my heart, inviting us to imagine hopeful, distinctly Asian futures through art, design, film, and architecture. It opens on 13 September.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
I’ve just published a new essay, Reading the Cosmic Web, inspired by Mark Neyrinck's Rivers of Galaxies in @aeon.co. It explores how the filamentary structure of the universe is echoed in rivers, mycelium, spiderwebs, and other branching forms of life.
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August 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve just published a new essay, Reading the Cosmic Web, inspired by Mark Neyrinck's Rivers of Galaxies in @aeon.co. It explores how the filamentary structure of the universe is echoed in rivers, mycelium, spiderwebs, and other branching forms of life.
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We’ve just launched the first project in ArtScience Museum’s programme for the International Year of Quantum - Qlimate Tongues by Libby Heaney.
It prompted a new essay - The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum Science.
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It prompted a new essay - The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum Science.
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The Quantum Turn
The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum ScienceBy Honor Harger29 June 2025 The strange logics of quantum mechanics have been with us for more than a century. This…
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June 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We’ve just launched the first project in ArtScience Museum’s programme for the International Year of Quantum - Qlimate Tongues by Libby Heaney.
It prompted a new essay - The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum Science.
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It prompted a new essay - The Quantum Turn: Art and Uncertainty in the International Year of Quantum Science.
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What if astronomical instruments didn’t just show us the universe — but became part of how we think?
I’ve written a new piece, Towards a Cognitive Astronomy. It’s inspired by the recent essay by @coreyspowell.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
It’s about tools, thought, and telescopes. 🧪✨
I’ve written a new piece, Towards a Cognitive Astronomy. It’s inspired by the recent essay by @coreyspowell.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
It’s about tools, thought, and telescopes. 🧪✨
Towards a Cognitive Astronomy
Towards a Cognitive Astronomy: How Observing the Universe Extends the Mind By Honor Harger 8 June 2025 I think a lot about astronomy. It’s embedded in how I work, think, and pay attention to the wo…
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June 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
What if astronomical instruments didn’t just show us the universe — but became part of how we think?
I’ve written a new piece, Towards a Cognitive Astronomy. It’s inspired by the recent essay by @coreyspowell.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
It’s about tools, thought, and telescopes. 🧪✨
I’ve written a new piece, Towards a Cognitive Astronomy. It’s inspired by the recent essay by @coreyspowell.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
It’s about tools, thought, and telescopes. 🧪✨
This weekend we reopened Future World, our permanent exhibition at ArtScience Museum with 4 new artworks by teamLab that explore nature as a living, responsive system. These installations respond to our presence inviting a deeper connection with the natural world.
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[Official] teamLab Future World, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Mar 12, 2016 - Permanent ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
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June 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This weekend we reopened Future World, our permanent exhibition at ArtScience Museum with 4 new artworks by teamLab that explore nature as a living, responsive system. These installations respond to our presence inviting a deeper connection with the natural world.
www.teamlab.art/e/artscience...
www.teamlab.art/e/artscience...
This week, we launch the Sustainable Futures season at ArtScience Museum, with the reopening of Future World featuring new works by teamLab, the Southeast Asian premiere of Artland by Do Ho Suh & a new ecological film festival.
In this essay, I reflect on why we continue to return to nature.
In this essay, I reflect on why we continue to return to nature.
Sustainable Futures: On Curating Ecological Imagination
Sustainable Futures: On Curating Ecological Imagination25 May 2025 As climate anxiety deepens, public institutions must do more than educate: we must inspire. At ArtScience Museum, we’ve long belie…
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May 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This week, we launch the Sustainable Futures season at ArtScience Museum, with the reopening of Future World featuring new works by teamLab, the Southeast Asian premiere of Artland by Do Ho Suh & a new ecological film festival.
In this essay, I reflect on why we continue to return to nature.
In this essay, I reflect on why we continue to return to nature.
Earlier this year, I took part in two different, but connected, gatherings: the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication in Sharjah and the CERN Art and Science Summit in Geneva.
I’ve written a short report reflecting on those events, and my curatorial work at ArtScience Museum.
I’ve written a short report reflecting on those events, and my curatorial work at ArtScience Museum.
Strange Patterns: Art as a Pathway to Scientific Understanding
Strange Patterns: Art as a Pathway to Scientific Understanding 7 February 2025 A report on the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, January 27…
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May 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Earlier this year, I took part in two different, but connected, gatherings: the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication in Sharjah and the CERN Art and Science Summit in Geneva.
I’ve written a short report reflecting on those events, and my curatorial work at ArtScience Museum.
I’ve written a short report reflecting on those events, and my curatorial work at ArtScience Museum.
I’ve just returned from the opening of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, where the question of what architecture can still do lingered across pavilions, prototypes, and planetary debates.
750 participants,lots of trees, robots, AI-generated cities, bioreactive materials & geoengineering tools.
750 participants,lots of trees, robots, AI-generated cities, bioreactive materials & geoengineering tools.
Infrastructures for the Planetary Condition: The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale
Infrastructures for the Planetary Condition: The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale17 May 2025 I’ve just returned from the vernissage of the 19th Venice Biennale of Architecture where I attended the…
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May 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I’ve just returned from the opening of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, where the question of what architecture can still do lingered across pavilions, prototypes, and planetary debates.
750 participants,lots of trees, robots, AI-generated cities, bioreactive materials & geoengineering tools.
750 participants,lots of trees, robots, AI-generated cities, bioreactive materials & geoengineering tools.
Physicists have confirmed the existence of plastic ice, a phase which is not quite solid, not quite liquid.
It was discovered by the Institut Laue-Langevin using quasi-elastic neutron scattering.
It’s probably forming deep inside big icy moons like Europa, Callisto or Ganymede.
🧪
It was discovered by the Institut Laue-Langevin using quasi-elastic neutron scattering.
It’s probably forming deep inside big icy moons like Europa, Callisto or Ganymede.
🧪
The first experimental observation of an exotic phase of water: Plastic ice VII
In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of which—predicted to exist at high temperature and pr...
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May 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Physicists have confirmed the existence of plastic ice, a phase which is not quite solid, not quite liquid.
It was discovered by the Institut Laue-Langevin using quasi-elastic neutron scattering.
It’s probably forming deep inside big icy moons like Europa, Callisto or Ganymede.
🧪
It was discovered by the Institut Laue-Langevin using quasi-elastic neutron scattering.
It’s probably forming deep inside big icy moons like Europa, Callisto or Ganymede.
🧪
Just back from visiting teamLab Phenomena in Abu Dhabi. Still feeling somewhat dazed by the Levitation Void.
It’s rare to walk into a building-sized installation and to literally not understand what you are seeing.
A singular, unsettling, special experience.
teamlab.art/w/levitation...
It’s rare to walk into a building-sized installation and to literally not understand what you are seeing.
A singular, unsettling, special experience.
teamlab.art/w/levitation...
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just back from visiting teamLab Phenomena in Abu Dhabi. Still feeling somewhat dazed by the Levitation Void.
It’s rare to walk into a building-sized installation and to literally not understand what you are seeing.
A singular, unsettling, special experience.
teamlab.art/w/levitation...
It’s rare to walk into a building-sized installation and to literally not understand what you are seeing.
A singular, unsettling, special experience.
teamlab.art/w/levitation...
Strange new research into colour perception.
“There is no way to convey that colour in an article or on a monitor. […]
The whole point is that this is not the colour we see, it’s just not. The colour we see is a version of it, but it absolutely pales by comparison with the experience of olo.”
“There is no way to convey that colour in an article or on a monitor. […]
The whole point is that this is not the colour we see, it’s just not. The colour we see is a version of it, but it absolutely pales by comparison with the experience of olo.”
Hue new? Scientists claim to have found colour no one has seen before
Contested discovery achieved by experiment firing laser pulses into eyes, stimulating retina cells
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April 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Strange new research into colour perception.
“There is no way to convey that colour in an article or on a monitor. […]
The whole point is that this is not the colour we see, it’s just not. The colour we see is a version of it, but it absolutely pales by comparison with the experience of olo.”
“There is no way to convey that colour in an article or on a monitor. […]
The whole point is that this is not the colour we see, it’s just not. The colour we see is a version of it, but it absolutely pales by comparison with the experience of olo.”
This new essay is a great primer on Assembly Theory, one of the more compelling attempts to rethink how we understand life, complexity, and emergence, developed by @saraimari.bsky.social & @leecronin.bsky.social.
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longnow.org/ideas/physic...
Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not
Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.
longnow.org
April 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This new essay is a great primer on Assembly Theory, one of the more compelling attempts to rethink how we understand life, complexity, and emergence, developed by @saraimari.bsky.social & @leecronin.bsky.social.
longnow.org/ideas/physic...
longnow.org/ideas/physic...
A 7.7 quake at 10km depth is devastating. The scale of loss in Myanmar will be unimaginable. For context: Christchurch 2011 was 6.2 at 5km. This is worse, in a country already on its knees. I can’t stop thinking about what people there are going through.
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March 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A 7.7 quake at 10km depth is devastating. The scale of loss in Myanmar will be unimaginable. For context: Christchurch 2011 was 6.2 at 5km. This is worse, in a country already on its knees. I can’t stop thinking about what people there are going through.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Extraordinary new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest dark energy might be changing over time rather than being a constant force. If confirmed, this could upend our understanding of cosmic expansion and the universe’s fate.
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case. | Quanta Magazine
Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion.
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March 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Extraordinary new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest dark energy might be changing over time rather than being a constant force. If confirmed, this could upend our understanding of cosmic expansion and the universe’s fate.
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
Over the weekend, we had the great pleasure of opening the Asian premiere of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, with Iris herself at ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Featuring 140 of her works, the exhibition traces a journey from the ocean to the cosmos.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
March 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Over the weekend, we had the great pleasure of opening the Asian premiere of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, with Iris herself at ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Featuring 140 of her works, the exhibition traces a journey from the ocean to the cosmos.
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
www.marinabaysands.com/museum/exhib...
Physicist Eva Llabrés teamed up with marine biologists to create a biophysical model to predict coral reef growth.
Using morphogenetics and computational ecology, they show reef structures follow deep geometric rules.
Understanding this could reshape how we approach coral restoration. 🧪
Using morphogenetics and computational ecology, they show reef structures follow deep geometric rules.
Understanding this could reshape how we approach coral restoration. 🧪
The ‘Elegant’ Math Model That Could Help Rescue Coral Reefs | Quanta Magazine
Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes.
www.quantamagazine.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Physicist Eva Llabrés teamed up with marine biologists to create a biophysical model to predict coral reef growth.
Using morphogenetics and computational ecology, they show reef structures follow deep geometric rules.
Understanding this could reshape how we approach coral restoration. 🧪
Using morphogenetics and computational ecology, they show reef structures follow deep geometric rules.
Understanding this could reshape how we approach coral restoration. 🧪