Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

After two years of design, research, and creativity, Princeton’s 2025 Art of Science Exhibition is almost ready to open. The exhibition will feature 33 two-dimensional still images and roughly a dozen ...

How does technical art history relate to the burgeoning field of heritage science? Has technical art history become part of heritage science? Can both disciplines be considered counterparts within the ...

Art and science are often thought of as completely separate fields. However, a rich overlap exists between the two, and they share many connections that are begging for exploration. These ...

Professor Michael Barresi has long been exploring that question in his research in development biology. Now, he’s taking up the topic in a new way: via visual art. Barresi, who is professor of ...

For more than a decade, CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, has been ahead of the curve, hosting artists in residence as one of the first scientific institutions ...

On September 26, 2024, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) held a talk event entitled “Science+Art: Creatively Communicating Research” at the United Nations University (UNU) ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American More than a decade ago, the renowned ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Annalisa Crannell goes to art museums with ...