Cassandra Willyard

Hacking Into the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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For centuries, artists have come to art museums, set up camp in the corner of a gallery, and sketched the artwork on the walls. Earlier this month, 23 artists used cutting-edge technologies (including 3-D printers and modeling software) to put their own spin on some of the masterworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The […]

Artists and Scientists Riff on Water

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Can Art Spark a Discovery in the Lab?

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Undoing Creativity: The Hidden Hazards of Control-Z

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Why Do We Blush? and Other Scientific Mysteries

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Synergy: Artists Take on Ocean Science

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Each summer, the village of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, swells with scientists. They come from all over the world to study the ocean and its marine life. One of those scientists, Whitney Bernstein, a PhD candidate in chemical oceanography at MIT, wanted to find new ways to help her colleagues reach the public. Woods Hole is […]

Vegetation Goes Vertical

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In densely packed cities, green space is often hard to come by. Apartment dwellers who yearn for a whiff of nature resort to potted plants on fire escapes or roof gardens. But wha…