Jessica Benko

Maxine's portraits of her imaginary friends.

Imaginary friends forever

Culture

Are kids with imaginary friends more creative?

DJ Spooky Remixes Antarctica

Arts, Culture & Media

Poetry and Taxonomy

Arts, Culture & Media

Seeing Stats: The Art of Data Visualization

Arts, Culture & Media

2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics Teaches About Music

Arts, Culture & Media

Imagine Science Film Festival

Arts, Culture & Media

The fourth Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) will be held in New York City October 14-21. Venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens will host 80 films from 15 countries. They are …

Photographing the Microscopic World

Arts, Culture & Media

Bernardo Cesare’s photographs investigate the history of the earth and expose the mysteries of its formation…

Storytelling and Science Collide

Arts, Culture & Media

Humans love a well-told story and scientists are beginning to understand why. According to a 2010 study by three Princeton researchers, the act of listening to, and comprehending, a n…

Reconstructing Viruses

Arts, Culture & Media

Why do scientists want to recreate viral monsters like the 1918 Spanish flu? And if they do, should they be allowed to publish the instructions?

Does Your Zombie Have Rabies?

Arts, Culture & Media

Some of our culture’s most enduring monsters transmit their contagion through biting — werewolves, zombies, and vampires. Could these myths actually be about rabies?