A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to ...

When Luísa Amado started drawing funny lab experiences, she did not expect her illustrations to help scientists all over the ...

Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

Take a look at these neurons. Ignore the fact that several of the brain cells look like snowflakes and at least one looks like an avocado. Can you pick out the drawings done by experienced, ...

Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified. Visualizing these representations would enable us to better understand ...

Between 1966 and 1977, the social scientist David Chambers asked 4,807 elementary-school children, mostly from Canada and the United States, to draw a scientist. Their illustrations regularly featured ...

A new monograph reveals Ernst Haeckel’s marvelous work in all its incredible detail. Not all contributions to science come in the form of numbers. For instance, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s ...

Scientific manuscripts are full of images. Since the birth of the life sciences, these images were in a form of hand drawings, with great examples from da Vinci, Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, Remak, Buffon, ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, creating one can have as much value to the illustrator as to the intended audience. This is the case with "Picturing to Learn," a project in which college ...

“To survive I had to become creative,” said artist, author, inventor and Holocaust survivor Ivan Moscovich. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The colorful artwork on display at the National Museum of ...

(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The colorful artwork on display at the National Museum of Mathematics is geometric and precise. They’ve been described by Wallpaper magazine as “the work of a ...