Bioart: when science and creativity join paths
Bioart is an art form that intertwines the beauty of art with biology, using live cells and unique chemical processes as a medium. This movement advances the traditional boundaries of...
An Immunologist’s Suite: How Dr. Gabriel Victora Composed a Life in B Cells
Science and art are often presented as a juxtaposition, the former delimited by rationality and objectivity, while the latter exposing abstract thought and subjectivity. But what if these realms harmonized?...
The inseparable nature of art and science: Does the “Renaissance man” still exist today?
Science and art have co-existed as disciplines throughout human history. Both are manifestations of the human imagination and require a modicum of creativity and skill in observation. From intricate star-shaped...
Beyond Left and Right: The Neuroscience of Creativity and Logic
The human brain, with its elegant bilateral symmetry, has long been depicted as a battleground of opposites. On one side: the left hemisphere, logical, analytical, verbal. On the other: the...
The Science of Culinary Arts
After a long week of work, don’t you want to treat yourself to a good meal? Maybe you're not too confident in your culinary arts...but it’s a good thing you’re...
Body Horror and Horrific Bodies: What the Horror Genre Can Tell Us About Responsible Science
At first glance, it would seem that the horror genre and science are natural opposites. After all, horror is driven by a fear of the unknown, of things that lurk...
The Science of Music
Music is omnipresent in our lives. From wishing ‘Happy Birthday’ to our loved ones, to humming to our favorite tunes while doing daily chores, music finds a way to keep...
The combined impact of art and science on society & the power of mixing fact with feeling
Today, it is not uncommon to view the arts and the sciences as mutually exclusive disciplines. We tend to imagine scientists and artists residing on opposite ends of a spectrum,...
An AI-generated picture worth a thousand words
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is now at the forefront of technology and is becoming increasingly available to the general public. Along with its rise in our current culture, there also...
Solving for (X)-istential Patterns within Nature
Humans have sought to mathematically describe and characterize the structure, patterns, and evolution of natural organisms and processes for over two millennia. The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras (570-495 BCE), who...