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This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.
The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.
The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.
When most of us were children, and we went to a rural area with clear skies overhead at night, we were all greeted by the same familiar sight: a dark night sky, glittering with many hundreds or even t...
Ever since the final years of the original space race, NASA has been unrivaled as the world leader in space sciences and space exploration. In particular, NASA astrophysics has brought us a wide range...
There is a rich and long history to the philosophy of reading. In his Phaedrus, Plato attacked reading as corrupting true philosophical dialectic. Later, in his 1597 book Essays, Francis Bacon wrote t...
Small, smart and beginner-friendly, the SeeStar S50 takes the hassle out of stargazing, delivering detailed nebula and galaxy shots at the tap of your screen.
Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.
With potential safety improvements and lower manufacturing costs, Na-ion batteries are coming of age at precisely the right time.
A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.
The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.
An experimental treatment reduces seizures and other symptoms in children with a type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.
The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.
Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals new infrared images of the brain-shaped "Exposed Cranium" nebula, the final stages of a dying star.
A researcher explores how AI is being used to optimize food delivery, which may not always be a good thing.
A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random.
Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's Bronze Age.