The following is an excerpt from Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art, by Arthur I. Miller. In early 1960, an unlikely-looking pair of men were to be seen driving ...

This is part of a series from Ilene Dube of The Artful Blogger. Rudyard Kipling told us how the leopard got its spots, but mathematician and father of computer science Alan Turing explained how ...

Even in a region of technology giants and in an age of screens, it might be possible to overdo tech in an art museum. “I’ve been in some museums where people are holding up an iPad, they’re walking ...

Three years ago, leaders at Northwestern Engineering and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art had an idea— to directly engage artists with engineers by embedding an Artist-at-Large with the ...

Northwestern University engineer John A. Rogers has done something remarkable, steering his innovative “Lab on the Skin” invention to a rare level of cultural notoriety as part of an art exhibit at ...

For years, the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Mechanical Engineering foundry has served as a learning environment for students eager to gain hands-on manufacturing skills. But, the early ...

To most people, a bridge is simply an assembly that allows travelers to move safely across a river or gorge. But to Christina Terpeluk, a Johns Hopkins senior from Chestertown, Md., a bridge can be a ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- Jena Salvetti, a U.S. Army human factors engineer has always had an interest in creating art. "From a young age, I could be found drawing, painting and sculpting," Salvetti ...