Jessica Benko

Imaginary friends forever

Are kids with imaginary friends more creative?

Imaginary friends forever
Maxine's portraits of her imaginary friends

Imaginary friends forever

Imaginary friends forever

Does Your Zombie Have Rabies?

Does Your Zombie Have Rabies?

Reconstructing Viruses

Reconstructing Viruses
The World

Imaginary Friends Forever

Imaginary Friends Forever
The World

Robopainter

AARON is the world's first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort.

Robopainter

Storytelling and Science Collide

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...

Storytelling and Science Collide

Photographing the Microscopic World

Bernardo Cesare's photographs investigate the history of the earth and expose the mysteries of its formation...

Photographing the Microscopic World

Imagine Science Film Festival

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 ...

Imagine Science Film Festival

2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics Teaches About Music

Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics, teaches "Physics and Music" at UC Berkeley. From his course description: "The mysteries of music have long inspired scientists to inve...

2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics Teaches About Music

Seeing Stats: The Art of Data Visualization

Many scientists have no trouble conjuring rich images in their heads just from scanning columns of data. For the rest of us, it's essential to turn that data into something we can r...

Seeing Stats: The Art of Data Visualization

Poetry and Taxonomy

When Studio 360 contributor and science reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro visited at the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology last winter, he met Dhugal Lindsay.  The Au...

Poetry and Taxonomy

DJ Spooky Remixes Antarctica

DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) has just released The Book of Ice, a new interactive graphic design project that weaves together the history and future of the human relationship to the wi...

DJ Spooky Remixes Antarctica