Sharks Made Out of Golf Bags? A Look at the Big Fish in Contemporary Art
Intrigued by the powerful hunters, artists have made tiger sharks, great whites and hammerheads the subjects of sculpture
Colonies of Growing Bacteria Make Psychedelic Art
Israeli physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob uses bacteria as an art medium, shaping colonies in petri dishes into bold patterns
Toxic Runoff Yellow and Other Paint Colors Sourced From Polluted Streams
An engineer and an artist at Ohio University team up to create paints made of sludge extracted from streams near abandoned coal mines
Nobel Prize Winners Are Put to the Task of Drawing Their Discoveries
Volker Steger photographs Nobel laureates posing with sketches of their breakthrough findings
The Macabre Beauty of Medical Photographs
An artist-scientist duo shares nearly 100 images of modern art with a ghastly twist—they're all close-ups of human diseases and other ailments
The End of the World Might Just Look Like This
Artist Ron Miller presents several scenarios—most of them scientifically plausible—of landscapes imperiled and of Earth meeting its demise
Inside the Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C.
To us, the architecture of the Lincoln Memorial is an iconic callback to ancient Greece. But what would extraterrestrials make of it?
Horticultural Artists Grow Fantastical Scenes at the Montréal Botanical Garden
Take a peek at some of the living artwork entered in an international competition in Quebec this summer
Creating a New Kind of Night Light: Glow-in-the-Dark Trees
A group in California is starting to engineer plants that could one day replace streetlights
Fruits and Veggies Get a Close-Up
In the darkroom, photographer Ajay Malghan creates abstract art by casting light through thin slices of produce
These Bright Webs Depict Flight Patterns Around Major Airports
Software engineer Alexey Papulovskiy has built Contrailz, a site that generates visuals of flight data over cities around the world
It’s a Green, Green, Green, Green World
NASA and NOAA release satellite images of Earth and all its vegetation
The Big Bang: Enthralling Photos of Exploding Bullets
Houston photographer Deborah Bay captures the violent power of projectiles lodged in bulletproof plexiglass
The Scientist Comes to the Classroom
Partnerships that pair schools and working scientists are helping kids think about science—and science careers—in ways they never imagined
This Incredible Art Installation Makes It Rain, Everywhere But On You
"Rain Room," on display at MoMA, is an indoor downpour that detects the presence of people and adjusts to keep them dry
Document Deep Dive: The Patent for the First Practical Solar Cell
See how three scientists at Bell Laboratories in 1954 invented the silicon solar cell that became the model for converting sunlight into electricity today
The Vibrant Patterns of Portuguese Men-of-War
Beachgoers despise the stinging animals, but photographer Aaron Ansarov finds surreal beauty in them
What Animal Sounds Look Like
Mark Fischer, a software developer in California, turns data from recordings of whales, dolphins and birds into psychedelic art
How to Grow a Nanogarden
In a lab at Harvard University, Wim Noorduin cultivates microscopic crystalline flowers in glass beakers
We Don’t Have to Choose Between Fossil Fuels and Green Energy
In a new book, Michael Levi argues that betting on a single energy path will only lead to failure
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