Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ align with a scientific theory, study finds
A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in his painting “The Starry Night.”
Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' masterpiece captured real world physics
Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night is renowned for its swirling blue skies and luminous yellow stars.
Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ actually captured 2 laws of physics with amazing accuracy
Have you ever gazed at Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting "The Starry Night" and felt like you could almost see the sky moving? Well, it turns out that your eyes weren't playing tricks on you.
New research finds Van Gogh's ‘Starry Night’ skies align with physics
A new study found that the skies in Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” align with current models of atmospheric turbulence. NBC News’ Ellison Barber talks to astrophysicist Adam Frank on the science behind the iconic swirly sky.
Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' contains surprisingly accurate physics — suggesting he understood the hidden 'dynamism of the sky'
A new analysis of the brushstrokes and colors in Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night reveals a striking similarity to "hidden turbulence" in Earth's atmosphere, suggesting the iconic artist had a surprisingly detailed understanding of natural processes.
Swirling Skies In Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' Accurately Depict Turbulence: Researchers
A close-up look at some of the swirls in The Starry Night's sky. Credit: Vincent van Gogh/Public domain One of the most recognizable paintings of all time, The Starry Night, has been found to exhibit how mathematics governs turbulent flow.
Scientists Say Van Gogh’s Starry Night Contains Hidden Physics
Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes match up with our current ideas of atmospheric turbulence,
A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...
Mysterious Rock Art May Depict 'Strange' Animal From 250 Million Years Ago
Indigenous painting may portray a long extinct creature that appeared before the first dinosaurs, a study found.
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Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing
Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.
Mysterious South African cave painting may have been inspired by fossils
The first inhabitants of southern Africa knew about locally abundant dicynodont fossils and made rock art about them.
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Nicolas Cage has been in over 100 movies. Here are his 13 best and 13 worst ones.
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Book Review: Cryptography Is as Much an Art as a Science
Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a ...
Palm Springs Art Museum connects California abstract art to science in new exhibition
The Palm Springs Art Museum is renowned for its focus on all things related to California mid-century modernism. A new ...
South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, suggests research
A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the ...
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Contributors to Scientific American’s October 2024 Issue
Since 2001 their editorial illustrations—including dozens of covers—have brought a futuristic flair to Scientific American. Creating art at the “cutting edge” of science and technology “has ...