April 03, 2012By Tim Stephens Armchair explorers of the cosmos can now have at their fingertips the nearly 2,000 distant planetary systems discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission. Kepler Explorer, an innovative app for iPads and iPhones developed by a team at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provides interactive displays of newly discovered planetary systems [more....}

Kepler Explorer By OpenLab { Available for Free at  iTunes} Description Kepler Explorer is an exciting new application for the iPad and iPhone, allowing anyone to gain a better understanding of the faraway planetary systems found by NASA’s Kepler Mission. This application was a collaboration of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Digital Arts [more....}

Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Moon Goose Analogue room installation view at FACT, photo Agnes Meyer-Brandis The Moon Goose Colony A film in 19 installments by Agnes Meyer-Brandis tells the story of the artist’s project to raise and imprint her colony of Moon Geese and train them for life on the Moon.  The chapters will be available for [more....}

Symbiartic Science-Art Scumble #30 By Glendon Mellow | March 25, 2012 | Share  Email  Print   Spring by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1563, oil on wood). In my opinion one of the historical precursors to science-art and scientific illustration Jean Giraud (Moebius) 1938-2012 – Lines and Colors Ralph McQuarrie, 1929-2012 – Lines and Colors Calling all GNSI Illustrators [more....}

The Pleasures of Science and Art Written by: Ellen Gilbert IN LOVE WITH SCIENCE AND ART: Physicist/novelist Alan Lightman spoke about his dual passions at the Princeton Public Library. “Ever since I was a boy my passions were equally divided between science and art,” said author Alan Lightman, setting the scene for his Friday evening [more....}

by Maria Popova On “the sheer love of allowing the mental engine to spin free.” We march through the world armed with intuition and rationality to conquer the unknown, the two in near-constant friction in a culture that frames them as opposing forces. We turn to science and the scientific method as the ultimate bastion [more....}

by Adam Frank Enlarge Artwork © De Wain Valentine/Image Courtesy of the Getty Conservation InstituteGray Column, 1975 – 1976, by De Wain Valentine The intersection of art and science gets a lot of ink these days, for good reason. Art can help us relate to and understand science. In a culture saturated with the fruits [more....}