At Hampshire College, students and faculty use the amoeba Physarum polycephalum—both a “visiting scholar” and a model organism—to examine human societal and political quandaries.  

An artist creates images on electrophoresis gels using exhibition visitors’ pooled genetic material.

An ongoing exhibition at Pace University in New York City features paintings and sculptures that relate to math, physics, and biology.

Seattle-based science writers and playwrights collaborated to produce theatrical works in a week.

Artists and scientists collaborate to highlight the importance of insects and arachnids.

Tribeca Film Festival organizers reverse their decision to screen a documentary by discredited researcher Andrew Wakefield.

With a card game, researchers make light of the “wacky aspects of scientific research.”

Artists reinterpret structures built by birds, insects, and corals in a new exhibit.

A new American Museum of Natural History exhibit introduces visitors to the microbes within their bodies. 

Cherished myths and merciless facts clash in a one-act play.