Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

One of the simplest and most beautiful naturally occurring patterns can be observed when light is shined through a pair of ...

The Moon Speaker Series talks are held at 7:30 p.m. in the planetarium after the regular Thursday night planetarium shows ...

Dear President Schill, Provost Hagerty, COO Luke Figora, Vice President Susan Davis and members of Northwestern’s central ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

I read Harvard Prof. Maya Sen’s Feb. 25 op-ed “A Compromise on University Funding” with great interest. Ms. Sen writes that reducing the rate the U.S. government—i.e., its taxpayers ...

Reproductions of Vettriano’s work became the best-selling artwork in Britain. When the original painting went under the hammer at Sotheby’s Hopetoun House sale in 2004, it sold for £744,800 ...

A fragment of the organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum. Credit: Pier Paolo Petrone A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE ...

No matter where you’re shopping, art world experts recommend asking questions and doing research to ensure an object wasn’t lost, looted or stolen. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam ...