Last week, we kicked off a first-anniversary celebration for Universe of Art, our science-meets-art spinoff podcast. A lot of listeners have written in since the start of the podcast, telling us about ...

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. By Jason Farago One spring ...

Can art and science really be interconnected? Scientists collect data, conduct experiments and make discoveries. Artists tell stories and tap into life's intangible spaces to shed light on the human ...

Artwork done by physicist and former UT Dallas professor Russell Stoneback is shown, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at his home in Plano. Stoneback turns complex space science into digital artworks, large ...

Meet a few of the featured artists from the Getty’s 2024 Southern California art event PST ART. Weaving together stories of artists featured in the Getty’s 2024-25 Southern California art event ...

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is often recognized as the founder of modern physics, perhaps even the father of modern science itself. But this popular image neglects one important facet of his ...

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 ...

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