A centuries-old sketch may be holding more than artistic secrets—it might carry traces of Leonardo da Vinci himself. A team ...

What does it mean to discover genetic material from an iconic artists who’d been dead for years? In the recent book Wild ...

There is even evidence that collaboration between scientists and artists may result in better science. This makes sense, because the history of science and art are closely intertwined. Prior to the ...

A three-story metal sphere in an echo-free chamber pulses with life. Inside, a new multisensory installation blends cutting-edge science with art to examine the fragility and resilience of our world’s ...

Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and in winter, or a photograph and a painting of the same cathedral, by using a ...

Three Institute alumni and six professors were among 50 Nobel laureates asked to “sketch their science” and pose with the resulting art for an unusual multimedia exhibition that includes photos, a ...

Computer scientists at the University of Basel have developed a new method for conducting image and video database searches based on hand-drawn sketches. The user draws a sketch on a tablet or ...

A small robotic arm can bring your digital sketches to life, by re-creating your on-screen drawings with a pen and paper. The robotic drawing arm was designed by a team of researchers, who combined ...