Art Meets Science
A Goat's Stomach Never Looked So Good
Eleven venues worldwide will exhibit these 20 striking micrographs, MRI scans and illustrations—all winners of this year's Wellcome Image Awards
In the Freezing Cold of Siberia, One Photographer Sought to Mix Oil and Water
In his latest project, British photographer Alexander James captures crude oil encased in frozen blocks of river water
A Computer Can Tell Real Jackson Pollocks From Fakes
Genuine Pollacks really are distinguishable from random splatters of paint—there's now software to prove it
Would You Like to Grow Color-Changing Flowers?
A Colorado company is working to genetically engineer petunias that change colors throughout the day
Blood Clots, Liver Cells and Bird Flu Are Surprisingly Beautiful Under a Microscope
The brightly-colored micrographs and scans in a new book, <i>Science is Beautiful</i>, answer big questions about the human body
A Tree Grows 40 Different Types of Fruit
What started as an art project has become a mission to reintroduce Americans to native fruits that have faded from popularity
Surreal Photos Reveal the Otherworldly Insides of Gemstones
If you thought gems were beautiful to the naked eye, take a look at them under a microscope
Making Dead People's Pulses Beat Again
A new device can transform 150-year-old printed representations of heart beats into actual sound
You've Never Seen Nerve Endings Like These
Scientists produce the most detailed images of nerve endings ever made
Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture
These Photos Capture a Decade of Change at Earth's Poles
From courting penguins to moody icebergs, photojournalist Camille Seaman shares her personal journey through polar habitats
The Physics of Whisky’s Aesthetically Pleasing Residue
A photographer teamed up with scientists to figure out the fluid dynamics behind patterns left in whisky glasses
Get Down With This Year’s "Dance Your PhD" Winners
Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year's favorites
You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues
Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they'll call you with a quick first-person history lesson
Gorgeous Portraits of Spineless Sea Creatures
In a new book, San Francisco-based photographer Susan Middleton captures the curious gestures and expressions of marine invertebrates
What Will We Leave in the Fossil Record?
Artist Erik Hagen considers the remnants of modern human life that may be found in rock strata millions of years from now
Secretive Victorian Artists Made These Intricate Patterns Out of Algae
A new documentary profiles Klaus Kemp, the sole practicioner of a quirky art form that is invisible to the naked eye
What Does "Deep Time" Mean to You?
An art exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences offers perspective on our geological past and future
500 Years' Worth of Book Illustrations Have Just Been Liberated From Print
The internet's about to get a wealth of illustrations from more than two million books
College Students Studied These Mail-Order Sea Creatures in the Late 1800s
Restored glass models of marine invertebrates, made by artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
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