Nobel-winning physicist, artist illustrate universe’s ‘warped side’

Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran team up to demystify complex science from black holes and wormholes to time travel and gravitational waves.

Anne J. Manning • harvard
Nov. 15, 2023 ~4 min

Museum to Hold Largest Showing of Vermeer's Paintings

VOA Learning English • voa
Feb. 9, 2023 ~3 min


Giving students everywhere up-close access to a world of art

The International Image Interoperability Framework makes online access as good as, or better than, physical interaction with library collections.

Anna Burgess • harvard
Jan. 9, 2023 ~7 min

Warhol’s ‘Marilyn’ Painting Sells for $195M

VOA Learning English • voa
May 10, 2022 ~2 min

The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire

Online sleuthing and deductive reasoning identifies what appears to be the only existent portrait painted of the celebrated scientist during his lifetime.

Larry Griffing, Associate Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University • conversation
July 27, 2020 ~10 min

Method paints 3D-printed stuff’s nooks and crannies

3D-printed stuff can be complex and have lots of hard-to-reach surfaces. But that's no problem for a new method for painting 3D-printed objects.

Todd Bates-Rutgers • futurity
April 28, 2020 ~4 min

Hunter-gatherers heated lake gunk to make ochre paint

Ancient artists used ochre, one of Earth's oldest materials, as a red paint, but researchers have only now figured out how they made it.

Eric Stann-Missouri • futurity
Nov. 20, 2019 ~4 min

Pollock paintings avoid a curly physics problem

Jackson Pollock created his masterpieces by pouring paint right onto canvases. New research reveals the careful physics of his technique.

Kevin Stacey-Brown • futurity
Oct. 30, 2019 ~5 min


How nuclear weapons help reveal forged paintings

A new method for detecting forged paintings defeats a clever counterfeit strategy.

Franziska Schmid-ETH Zurich • futurity
June 6, 2019 ~4 min

How Monet’s paintings ‘trick’ our eyes

Monet's paintings of London's Waterloo Bridge offer a master class in visual perception—and how a master Impressionist can manipulate it.

Lindsey Valich-Rochester • futurity
Jan. 2, 2019 ~10 min

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