In the wake of the recent recession, we have been consistently apprised of the pressing need to revitalize funding and education in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and math. Doing this ...

Combining science and the arts is a way to spur student innovation, says Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Education Director, Global Oneness Project. She shares why it is important to connect the two as well as ...

From teaching curious museumgoers to adding creativity to the scientific process, art is an essential component of the science done at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Raven ...

For some chemists, the next research project may be a collaboration with scientists at the local art museum. Increasingly, staff scientists at museums across the U.S. have been reaching out to ...

When viewing paintings, people usually focus on what they can see. But often, the stories behind the painting — from how it was made to how it got to a museum — are just as interesting. “On the Same ...

What do ancient cave paintings, Renaissance frescoes and Cubist sculptures have to do with the discovery of the Higgs boson? Quite a lot, says theoretical physicist Savas Dimopoulos. "Why do we do ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. The obvious gap in this collection of advice is why science students ...

In this Perspective article, I consider ways in which the contemporary arts and sciences can interact with each other, and I outline the current opportunities for funding in the United Kingdom. I ...

In 2011, some 60 art institutions in Southern California got together to create a region-wide art collaboration called Pacific Standard Time. PST Art, as it is now known, is on its third iteration and ...

Frederick Winslow Taylor, an American mechanical engineer, published his "Principles of Scientific Management" over 100 years ago in which he laid out Industrial-era organization and decision theory.

At first glance, art and science might seem like opposite worlds — one driven by imagination and emotion, the other by data and precision — but at their core, both seek to explore and explain the ...

Pi Day was particularly sweet for Nancy Scherich and her team, whose video, “Math Dance 2,” took first place honors in the campus’s Art of Science competition. Pi Day — March 14 — invites scientists ...