When last we saw [xoreaxeax], he had built a lens-less optical microscope that deduced the structure of a sample by recording ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, inviting you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. This one, a painting by Elisheva Biernoff of a found photograph, is called “Advent.” It ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or ...

Alfa Art Gallery presents the Winter 2026 Photography Exhibition, Reflections of the Living World. The exhibition is free and ...

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature ’s photo team.

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...

A look inside a Queens studio where Buddhas, sneakers and swans are carved with reverence and the knowledge that beauty, like ice, is fleeting.

A new light and sound art installation transforms the former Macy’s storefront on Fulton Mall, bringing color and energy to Downtown Brooklyn.

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, ...

If there's one style dominating photography right now, it's the stripped-back look: clean shots, natural light, real moments.