Books
Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980 argues for the art history importance of dinosaur illustrations, as they shape our understanding of this extinct world through the visual culture of the present.
In Brief
Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida's coral reefs.
Art
The small chamber was at the heart of intellectual life in New England from 1766 to 1820, and then it all but disappeared.
Art
In 1918, painter Howard Russell Butler precisely captured what the camera could not: the fiery colors of a solar eclipse.
Art
The Barbican Centre's Into the Unknown explores science fiction as a cultural force, and how it channels our most optimistic and dystopian projections about the future.
News
NASA is launching an idea challenge for a compact radiation shield that would protect spacecraft and the astronauts within.
News
Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.
Books
Botanical Sketchbooks is a compendium of the diverse ways plants have been observed, studied, and immortalized in centuries of art.
Books
Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A new book compiles over 270 plates from their original publication.
Books
Researchers at University College London studied the scents of old books to better understand how to identify and protect "heritage smells."
News
Two scientific collections at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) are being divested to make way for renovations of the campus track stadium.
Books
A publication from Abrams Books and a traveling exhibit currently at the Weisman Art Museum highlight the medical illustrations of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.