At first glance, art and science might seem like opposite worlds — one driven by imagination and emotion, the other by data and precision — but at their core, both seek to explore and explain the ...

Agar can serve as a blank canvas. For roughly a century, scientists have used pigmented bacteria to create agar art, a practice credited to microbiologist Alexander Fleming’s early “germ paintings.” ...

Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in ...

For many scientists, art is not simply a side pursuit but part of how they make sense of the world. From microbiologist Louis Pasteur’s paintings to naturalist Charles Darwin’s use of photographs as ...

The museum is part of a renaissance happening on the city’s Historic Arkansas Riverwalk, where “learning never exhausts the mind.” Article by Colorado Sun writer: Sue McMillin Bonnie Waugh, ...

Christina Simms wouldn’t call herself an artist. The Howard University student was a budding scientist visiting to do research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her main objective was to do ...

Scientists have just unearthed theworld’s oldest known cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At 51,200 years old, the painting, depicting a pig alongside human figures, pushes back the ...

The beauty of this mutant strain of the fungus Trichoderma reesei belies the organism’s potential for dismantling biomass. Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The micro-world echoes the ...

The New Scientist Book Club had a change of pace in March, moving from the science-fictional visions of the far future that have been our fare in recent months to some excellent popular science with ...