大象传媒

Ervina and Prefina Bangalo were born in Mba茂ki, in the Central African Republic, with the back of their heads joined together. Their chances of surviving were incredibly low. By chance, Italian doctor Mariella Enoc was visiting the paediatric ward they were in. She immediately fell in love with the babies and decided to take them and their mum, Ermine Nzotto, to the Bambino Ges霉 Children's Hospital in Vatican City, where pioneering neurosurgeon Dr Carlo Efisio Marras and a team of 30 doctors and nurses were able to separate them. It took almost two years and three surgeries to complete the separation. In June 2020 the children were finally able to look into each other鈥檚 eyes.

One day, German artist Bartholom盲us Traubeck was looking at the rings on a tree that had been sliced through, and noticed they looked like the patterns on a vinyl disc. So he devised a record player that can translate wood into music. His project is called Years.

Former NASA scientist Robert J. Lang is one of the world鈥檚 foremost origami artist. Along with a team in Japan, he pioneered a system that took origami from 30 folds to hundreds of possibilities. One of his creations took seven years to complete.

Picture: Ervina and Prefina Bangalo with their mum Ermine Nzotto.
Credit: Bambino Ges霉 Children's Hospital.