There were no lions in 16th-century Puerto Rico — so was the cave drawing made by someone who'd actually seen one? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

Herlinde Koelbl's portraits of Nobel laureates (from left) Stefan Hell, Jennifer Doudna and Carolyn Bertozzi. Nobel-winning scientific discoveries can't often be distilled easily. Take the quantum ...

After nearly 350 years, a depiction of a bee’s brain is getting some buzz. A manuscript created in the mid-1670s contains the oldest known depiction of an insect’s brain, historian of science Andrea ...

Art, by its nature, often lends itself to multiple readings or interpretations. What one takes away from a work of art depends not just on what the artist brought to it when they sat down to put pen ...

Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...

What does it mean to discover genetic material from an iconic artists who’d been dead for years? In the recent book Wild Thing: A Biography of Paul Gaugin, Sue Prideaux discussed how the discovery of ...

Drawing inspiration from the way plants breathe, a group of researchers has created a paper-based magnesium-air battery that can be used in GPS sensors or pulse oximeter sensors. Taking advantage of ...