A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a neuroscience and bioscience researcher, I know that scientists are sometimes pigeonholed as white lab coats obsessed with ...

For many of us, our first encounters with science arrive through the gilded lens of childhood wonder. We peer breathlessly ...

Combining science and the arts is a way to spur student innovation, says Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Education Director, Global Oneness Project. She shares why it is important to connect the two as well as ...

A new monograph reveals Ernst Haeckel’s marvelous work in all its incredible detail. Not all contributions to science come in the form of numbers. For instance, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s ...

When viewing paintings, people usually focus on what they can see. But often, the stories behind the painting — from how it was made to how it got to a museum — are just as interesting. “On the Same ...

“To survive I had to become creative,” said artist, author, inventor and Holocaust survivor Ivan Moscovich. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The colorful artwork on display at the National Museum of ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, creating one can have as much value to the illustrator as to the intended audience. This is the case with "Picturing to Learn," a project in which college ...

Art and science can seem so different. Scientists work in teams, in the laboratory; their progress is piecemeal and, by-and-large, they know how to measure its occurrence. Art, so often at least, in ...

Explore why psychology is considered both a science and an art. Learn how research, evidence, and human understanding combine ...

Collaborating on a finely tuned team can feel magical, and the results can be phenomenal. When it doesn’t work, the opposite holds true: Bad teams can suck the life out of the best of us and make us ...