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Seven Must-See Art-Meets-Science Exhibitions in 2013
Courtesy of the Water Tank Project. This New Year’s Eve, in addition to the typical resolutions to exercise more or spend more time with family, consider resolving to take better advantage of the...
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The Year’s Most Outstanding Science Visualizations
First Place and People’s Choice, Photography: Biomineral Single Crystals. Credit: Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert and Christopher E. Killian; University of Wisconsin, Madison. When Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert, a...
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Transforming Raw Scientific Data Into Sculpture and Song
For Nathalie Miebach, the stars aligned with this sculpture, inspired by a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. © Nathalie Miebach In 2000, Nathalie Miebach was studying both astronomy and basket weaving at...
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Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine
The shelled sea butterfly Hyalocylis striata can be found in the warm surface waters of the ocean around the world. Photo: © Karen Osborn The chemistry of the ocean is changing. Most climate change...
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What Animal Sounds Look Like
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Image by Mark Fischer. Those who have a neurological condition called chromesthesia associate certain colors with certain sounds. It’s these people that I...
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The Vibrant Patterns of Portuguese Men-of-War
© Aaron Ansarov Aaron Ansarov experienced some depression after retiring from his post as a military photographer in 2007. But, one of the things that made him happy was walking in his backyard with...
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The End of the World Might Just Look Like This
Artist Ron Miller illustrates what it might look like if an asteroid the size of the one that struck the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago, which left a 93-mile-wide crater and most likely...
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Sharks Made Out of Golf Bags? A Look at the Big Fish in Contemporary Art
Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1991, British artist Damien Hirst stuffed a 13-foot tiger shark, caught in...
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These Ocean Waves Look Like Liquid Sculptures
© Pierre Carreau “I feel like a hunter of perfect moments,” says Pierre Carreau. Most days, in a 20-minute window when the lighting is just right, the photographer is on the beach near his home on the...
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The Gorgeous Shapes of Sea Butterflies
A pteropod (Limacina helicina) sculpture from Cornelia Kavanagh’s exhibition, which opens this week at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall. Photo Credit: John Gould...
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What Would a Cross Between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Really Look Like?
The polar bear (left) and grizzly (right) have been known to mate. © Nickolay Lamm/Business Insider. Artist Nickolay Lamm’s depiction of a polar-grizzly hybrid. © Nickolay Lamm/Business Insider. There...
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The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps
Jonah is cast overboard to a sea monster in an image from the earliest known atlas, the Theatrum orbis terrarum, by Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius, first published in 1570. Reprinted with...
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Okeanos: A Performance Where Dancers Move Like Octopuses and Seahorses
Credit: Joseph Seif Circus performer and Mongolian-trained contortionist Inka Siefker practiced moving like a giant Pacific octopus at home. “I wiped off kitchen counters like my arm had tentacles, or...
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The Science Behind Earth’s Many Colors
Searles Lake, California © Bernhard Edmaier Photographer Bernhard Edmaier is a geologist by training, and it is this knowledge base of the processes that create geological features that he leans on...
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Artists Join Scientists on an Expedition to Collect Marine Debris
Fishing net at Alaska’s Gore Point. © Kip Evans Washed up on the remote beaches of southern Alaska are plastics of every shape, size and color. There are detergent bottles, cigarette lighters, fishing...
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