I Turn Science Into Art

My Textbook Illustrations Help Educate the Next Generation of Biologists, Doctors, and Physicists

| Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

I graduated from art school in a muddle. All I’d ever really wanted to do was draw, and I had done so on every sheet of paper that came within range of my pencil. But suddenly, it all felt very self-indulgent. I felt I should do something meaningful with my art and somehow give something back. I sincerely believe in the intellectual value of art in our culture, but I was looking for something more concrete. What could I do with my art to really make the world a better …

by Nigel Orme | December 12, 2022

The Expansion of the Universe Raises Unnerving Questions

Princeton Cosmologist Jo Dunkley Explains Why We Are Always Updating Our Understanding of How We Got Here

Interview by Lisa Margonelli | March 12, 2020

Jo Dunkley is a leading researcher into the origins and evolution of the universe and professor of physics and astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. In her work, Dunkley uses the …

Albert Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and Me

Why Astrophysicists Were So Desperate to Catch a 'Whopping Big Signal' from the Universe

By Elizabeth Garbee | February 26, 2016

Like nearly every other physicist in the world last week, I was glued to my computer screen watching the recent press conference jointly called by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory …

Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss

Sorry, But the Constellations Are a Sham

November 29, 2014

Theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss is director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University and the author of many scientific publications as well as books for general audiences, including …

If You Want to Be a Rock Star, Study Physics

Convincing Teenagers That Energy and Entropy Are Sexy Could Give the U.S. a Much-Needed Boost in Science Education

by Christine McKinley | August 19, 2014

In high school, instead of calling the study of motion and energy “Basic Physics,” I propose we call it “Advanced Tactics for Rock Stars and Secret Agents.” To kick off …

Why I Boogied With a Black Hole

Dance Your Ph.D. Allowed Me to Turn My Doctoral Research Into Performance, and to Combine My Love of Art and Science

by Kari Alison Hodge | November 20, 2013

I’m dancing over and around four people lying face-up in a giant L-formation on the grass of Caltech’s Beckman Lawn, a place usually devoted to Frisbee gatherings. I’m wearing a …

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