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The Art of Ocean Science

On board a research vessel exploring the oceans, these artists found beauty in science.

March 15, 2022

For This Artist, the Sea Is a Never-Ending Story

At port with Kishan Munroe, an artist from The Bahamas.

March 11, 2022

Fantastic Beasts Brought to Life by the Wind

An artist’s moving tribute to nature’s powerful resource.

November 24, 2021

Who Said Science and Art Were Two Cultures?

Revisiting C.P. Snow’s infamous thesis.

November 17, 2021

Your Brain Is Like Beethoven

We survive noise by transforming it into patterns, like composers create music.

October 27, 2021

What Is Life?

An astrobiologist finds the heart of his work in a new novel by Richard Powers.

September 15, 2021

This NFT Painting Is a Work of Art

Machines are the new descendants of Picasso.

August 18, 2021

The Natural Harmony of Faces

How the golden ratio might contribute to cinema’s hold on us.

August 3, 2021

Film Contest Gives Young Environmental Activists a Voice

Middle schoolers Annabelle VanderMarck and Piper Lasater won the Nautilus Science Prize in the Redford Center Stories film contest.

What Makes Music Universal

Music brings us together to show us how different we are.

April 28, 2021

Blackout in the Brain Lab

What will happen to the organoids? A work of fiction.

March 24, 2021

Literature Should Be Taught Like Science

This renegade professor says literature is a machine that accelerates the human brain.

February 24, 2021