Turn Your Favorite Words of Wisdom into Beautiful Art
A new company called Epic Frequency turns historic audio files into artwork
Mapping the Art Genome
A new Web site called Art.sy recommends art based on a visitor's preference for a particular artist or artwork
Painting Portraits With Bacteria
Microbiologist Zachary Copfer has created detailed portraits of famous artists and scientists in petri dishes
Document Deep Dive: What Did Analysts Find in the Recon Photographs From the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Dino Brugioni explains how he and other CIA photo analysts located Soviet missiles just 90 miles away from the United States
Sinfully Delicious Apples That You Should Never Try to Eat
Inspired by the work of Cornell scientists, Los Angeles-based Jessica Rath creates sculptures and photographs of the autumn fruit
Amazing Photographs of Water Droplets Colliding
See the results of 98-year-old Irving Olson's kitchen experiments
Why School Should Be More Like Summer Camp
Salman Khan, a rising star in the education world, has a vision for a new kind of classroom
Winged Tapestries
Jim des Rivières' portraits of moths capture the insects' exquisite patterns
Science Images that Border on Art
This year's Wellcome Image Award winners pull at your "art" strings. The curious seek out the science behind them
Who Needs a Boss When You Have Your Co-Workers?
In a new book, Steven Johnson encourages us to lose top-down hierarchies, typical of companies, and instead organize around peer networks
Top 5 “Science Done Right” Moments in Movies
Directors take note: scientist and author David Kirby commends the accuracy in these popular films
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot
For 80 years, the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown, and now, thanks to new research, two of them have been identified
Top 5 “Science Done Wrong” Moments in Movies
From asteroids to cloning, author and scientist David Kirby weighs in
In a Van Gogh Painting, the Flowers Are Changing Color
Scientists have figured out why some of the "Flowers in a blue vase" became discolored over time
Picture-Perfect Bonsai
In a new book, botanical photographer Jonathan Singer focuses his lens on the potted plants
All Ears! An Underwater Sculpture that Listens
A collaboration between sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor and marine biologist Heather Spence aims to track the development of a new coral reef
It’s a Woman’s World With the End of Men
Men are floundering in the 21st century, according to Hanna Rosin, and the shift has wide-ranging implications for the workplace and the home
What's the Perfect Book to Get Over a Breakup?
Alain de Botton has provided a valuable service: giving reading prescriptions for a "shelf-help" approach to everyday problems
Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge Dies at Age 69
The Smithsonian mourns the loss of one of its visionary leaders
Genetics Lab or Art Studio?
DNA 11, based in Ottawa, has built the first high-tech genetics laboratory devoted solely to art making
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