science art

Earlier this year, Peru established Yaguas National Park, a 2 million acre Amazonian preserve that’s both a…

Even if you’re aware that glaciers are melting and sea levels are climbing, these facts can be difficult to connect…

In April 1815, a volcano in the East Indies erupted with cataclysmic force, releasing a plume of ash that circled…

Walking among the muted browns and greens and soft contours of shrubs and trees of Harvard Forest’s eastern…

Screw Rembrandt, Picasso and all that boring old guy paint-on-a-canvas stuff. The future of art is bacteria, ants,…

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Last summer, the internet was overrun with six-eyed dog faces, human legs that are actually slugs, and other images…

It’s natural to think of sound as an exclusively auditory experience. But if you were to see a sound wave, what…

Like every other surface of your body, your mouth is teeming with a panoply of bacteria. It’s a thought most of us…

Spherical Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities, to be exact. That’s what happens when two fluids of different densities…

You might say Ken Libbrecht is into snowflakes. In fact, he’s made a career of studying them in his lab at Caltech.…

With gold-plated space telescopes promising to discover distant worlds and unravel the deepest mysteries of the…

We love to imagine how biotechnology might one day enhance our fleshy bodies, but too often, Earth’s wildlife are…

These videos aren't just colorful and fascinating — they're also educational. They're made using just some speakers…

When an artist creates a beautiful work of art, she or he usually wants it to last forever — or at least, to outlive…

When water hits a glass surface, it usually just spreads itself out. But when water containing the organic molecule p…

The greatest cities on Earth are always in motion. Their bustling activity forms a great collective organism, whose…

Netherlands-based artist Jennifer Townley combines wood, metal, and electrical motors to build spellbinding…

These buildings by Kenzō Tange (1913-2005) look like matte paintings from futuristic movies — but they're actually…