Explore 25 science experiments that defied the laws of physics, revealing mind-bending phenomena that challenge intuition.

Learn about Violet Dandridge, Aime Motter Awl, Carolyn Bartlett Gast, and Marilyn Schotte: four women from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology who ...

Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th-century experiment in which he attached a metal key to a kite during a thunderstorm to see if the lightning would ...

CLEVELAND — The melding of science and art is proving to be an unlikely, but needed partnership as medical renderings become needed more often in the health field. "I can actually go into a scientific ...

Illustrations of scientific experiments play a fundamental role in both science education and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the general public. Confirming the adage that “a picture is ...

Before smartphones, tablets, and digital labs, science class for Baby Boomers meant getting hands-on with experiments that ...

Learn how botanical illustrator Alice Tangerini keeps traditional artistic methods alive in the increasingly digital world of science Emma Saaty Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has ...

Children can develop their own science story using a comic journal approach to record their investigations and findings. This will encourage children to ask deep and challenging questions of their ...

Researchers have always used graphics and illustrations to help make sense of their work. This coffee-table book gathers seven centuries’ worth. By Randall Munroe When you purchase an independently ...

When Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper, he provisioned Christ and his apostles with a meal fit for Renaissance nobility. Instead of limiting himself to a menu of bread and wine – or even the ...