Location Tägermoos between Steckborn and Hörhausen. The crop circle in this photo is already 15 days old. For visitors the owner made additional paths which disfigure the image somewhat. The shape is just simple, but more than a few circles. It reminds of the double helix of DNA. Aerial shot...

Jonah Lehrer, in his book Proust Was a Neuroscientist, tells the story of how a handful of iconic creators each discovered an essential truth about the mind long before modern science was able to label and pinpoint it, makes a case for the extraordinary importance of the cross-pollination of...

Since the mid-1960s John Brockman has been at the cutting edge of ideas. He is a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, and his website Edge is a salon for the world’s finest minds   To say that John Brockman is a literary agent is like saying that David Hockney is a...

In a recent TED talk about taking imagination seriously, Janet Echelman, creator of billowing, voluptuous fabric installations the size of buildings, described the unexpected trajectory of her fascinating career. Echelman’s work has evolved from large-scale fishnet sculptures created from...

Many people who have suffered brain damage turn to creating art. Researchers are studying them to help unravel how the brain works. Artist Katherine Sherwood was just 44 when a hemorrhage in her brain’s left hemisphere paralyzed the right side of her body — forever changing her...

CERN has had its fair share of great scientists pass through its doughnut-shaped halls, and it has also played host to and inspired artists like sculptor Antony Gormley, painter Patrick Hughes and photographer Andreas Gursky. The particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, home of...

To See Is Not to Know, and Vice Versa In her compelling and classic book On Photography, Susan Sontag raises the bar on the discussion of the intersection of science and art in drawing a direct relation to philosophical intent and technique: “Some photographers set up as scientists, others...

Swiss artist Andy Denzler creates paintings that are designed to look like the fuzzy image of a paused VHS recording. The oil paintings — mostly portraits of people — aim to reinterpret photography and film stills. Denzler told Wired.co.uk: “I’m pushing the boundaries...

Digital preservation of science and art is desperately, increasingly important. A race is on against the fast pace of technological change as scientists search for ways to preserve today’s most innovative artworks. “The threat is very real that, unless we do something, we will have...

What Separates Good From Great? As a designer, especially one without a lot of experience, it’s normal to look at the designs of others and think how great their work is compared to our own. It’s a frustrating experience for many, especially when we can’t quite put our finger on why...

Have you read about “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr? A 43-page list of rules of usage, principles of style and commonly misused words. It was a brief for brevity. “Vigorous writing is concise, When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter.” EB White added an...

Nature LA: xRez Studio is a unique only-in-L.A. collaboration between the visual effects background and the Gigapan technology developed by NASA, which builds digital images out of hundreds of high-resolution composite photos—to create “extreme resolution gigapixel photography,”...