Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.

IN A WORK titled “Allotropy of Mine” Daniela Brill Estrada, an artist from Colombia, confronts viewers with her body’s carbon content. A set of Ikea shelves displays jars, big and tiny, each filled ...

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 ...

A collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science. An Oregon State University-led collaboration ...

For Dear Life examines how illness and disability shape American art, featuring Katherine Sherwood. For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability explores how illness and disability have shaped ...

Newfound rock art from ancient Egypt may shed light on the time just before the first dynasty. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...

On the art of nose-blowing, said the New York State Department of Health last week, there are many schools of thought, but on nose-blowing as a science, only one. Strictly unscientific is the popular ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 ...