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 ...

Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a program that can identify simple sketches of objects almost as well as humans. The computer application enables “semantic ...

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 ...

In a 2019 sketch from the US late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), the actor James McAvoy plays a Scottish air traffic controller attempting to help a US brand integration manager (Mikey ...

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 ...

Science is hard but it is made much harder when you have Cecily Strong and Mikey Day as your students. "Science Room" is a staple of Saturday Night Live and while we've gotten some great frustrated ...

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 ...