Truth is stranger than science fiction
Do science and science fiction have a casual relationship, one finding direction from and fulfilling the science fantasy laid out before it? Stephen Hawking stressed science fiction helps inspire scientists’ imaginations, but Lawrence Krauss, a professor in the School of Space and Earth Exploration at Arizona State University, believes science fiction is not a match for reality. Although science fiction has taken inspiration from the cutting edge science of its day, according to Krauss, “Truth is stranger than fiction.”
http://www.mizonews.net/sciencetech/truth-stranger-science-fiction/

The story of a true artist who believed in science!
Painter Patrick Scott left his body to science
The body of Mr Scott, regarded as one of Ireland's most renowned modernist painters, would be donated to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland as part of its anatomical donations programme, where donor bodies are used in the teaching of medical students.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/painter-patrick-scott-left-his...

According to some of the faculty at Rhode Island School of Design, art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century like science and technology did in the last century. "We need to add Art + Design to turn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into STEAM" is the message. STEAM is a movement championed not only by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); it's also adopted widely by institutions, corporations, and individuals.
http://capeandislands.org/post/stem-art-steam

The art of science
The Koch Institute Public Galleries offer a glimpse inside the lab.
the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is a bit like trying to run through an art museum. It’s hard not to get drawn in by the 10 eight-foot images lining the glass-fronted Main Street lobby. Those who do stop to look more closely find that what appears to be an abstract painting might turn out to be an extreme close-up of blood vessels, a map of neuronal activity, or an eerily beautiful image of cancer cells.

The Koch Institute Public Galleries give passersby a glimpse into the research going on inside the building—and in labs across campus. “

http://www.technologyreview.com/article/524216/the-art-of-science/

Earth scientist turns the art of skateboarding into a 'public display of science'

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-earth-scientist-art-skateboarding-scie...
Adrian Lenardic, the prof.who has turned his love of the sport into a way to teach science.

LEGO contest connects science with art
On Friday, Feb. 21 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Beuth House, the College’s Biology Club will host a bio-building competition.

Open to all students, individuals or teams will have 35 minutes to build a bio-related structure using the colorful, interlocking plastic bricks.

Projects will be judged on three criteria: relevance to biology, aesthetics and the quality of the student/team explanation. Winners will receive a gift card for a store to be determined.
http://www.union.edu/news/stories/2014/02/lego-contest-connects-sci...

Students Combine Arts and Science While Exploring "Transhumanism"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/students-combine-art-and-...

There’s a difference between what we see here and what we see below the surface,” “The microscopic imagery was a vehicle to explore something different.”
The Art of Science: Students look through microscopes to find inspiration
http://baylorlariat.com/2014/02/21/the-art-of-science-students-look...

Science and art collide in space images
What are we really seeing when we look at photos of planets and stars?
http://scienceline.org/2014/02/science-and-art-collide-in-space-ima...

3D printer at UQAM: when science and art meet

3D printer at UQAM: when science and art meet

scientific innovations may open the door to new horizons in unexpected areas.
http://alphakick.com/technology-22/3d-printer-at-uqam-when-science-...

FirstWorks and American Dance Legacy Initiative, in collaboration with Artists and Scientists as Partners, Brown University, and Mark Morris Dance Group, have formed a partnership to present Widening the Circle: Intersections of Art, Science and Community. The series kicks off today and includes master classes, lecture demonstrations, performances, and seminars that provide unique opportunities for investigation.
FirstWorks Arts & Mark Morris Dance Group to Present Widening the Circle: Intersections of Art, Science and Community
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/FirstWorks-Arts-Mark-...

LETU to host aviation art exhibit Feb. 25-28
LeTourneau University’s School of Aeronautical Science is hosting its second annual aircraft-themed art show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, through Friday, Feb. 28, in the Abbott Aviation Center, located at 11450 FM 349 near the East Texas Regional Airport in Longview. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/the-school-yard/letu-to-host-aviation-a...

Science-art making science simple:
“Organic” Honey? Not So Much
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/02/19/organic-h...

STEAM Conference 2014
Connecting and promoting community-centered arts, science and education organizations - STEM to STE+aM
http://steamconnect.org/steam-conference-2014/
They are bringing arts and science together for our first STEAM conference on March 28. Leaders of the CA Arts Council (Craig Watson) and CA STEM Learning Network (Chris Roe) will speak in their opening session, and they will have a day full of thought-provoking speakers, tours and workshops at Qualcomm and interactive workshops. More details on the program and a link to tickets can be found on the website.

Bio-art :

http://am1050.com/2014/sjrmc-reception-for-wsoi-bioart-student-winn...

Students didn't prefer sci-art?
The board of governors suspended the one-year general arts and science-arts program at a meeting Thursday.
only drew five to 10 students annually.

“We thought general arts and science-arts would attract the students with an arts bent, but for the most part it didn't,” said Tiberi following the meeting.

Sault College anticipated students taking the two-semester program would move into one of the programs, such as graphic design and video game art, offered in its school of media and design. Instead, says Tiberi, “they're just going directly into those.”

http://www.saultstar.com/2014/02/22/college-suspends-arts-option

The art of science exhibition:
A large number of school students thronged the science exhibition organised by ‘The Hindu in Schools’, in association with QED-Centre for the Art of Science, on the theme ‘Encouraging a scientific bent of mind and critical thinking in students’ at E.M.G. Yadava Women’s College here on Friday.

Inaugurating the exhibition, A.C. Abraham, Vice-Principal of The American College, said, “Science has always been a demystifying experience. The ability to ask critical questions and follow them up with a systematic plan of inquiry seeking right answers advances the scientific thoughts and it has made us what we are today.”
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/students-throng-science...

Mike Tyka is not the first scientist to see artistic potential through his microscope, but he’s taken his love for the structure of protein molecules much farther than most – not only learning metalworking to make beautiful copper sculptures, but creating a studio/makerspace to do it in.

Tyka earned a PhD in Biophysics in 2007 and went to work as a research fellow studying the structure and dynamics of protein molecules. His particular area of interest is protein folding, and he has written computer simulation software to better understand the process. Tyka says that “protein folding is the way our genetic code is interpreted from an abstract sequence of data into the functional enzymes and nano machines that drive our bodies.”

Tyka got interested in sculpture in 2009 when he helped design and construct Groovik’s Cube, a 35ft tall, functional, multi-player Rubik’s cube. The cube will soon be on view at New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center as part of its Beyond Rubik’s Cube Exhibit.

http://thefinchandpea.com/2014/02/19/the-art-of-science-copper-jell...

Mike Tyka is not the first scientist to see artistic potential through his microscope, but he’s taken his love for the structure of protein molecules much farther than most – not only learning metalworking to make beautiful copper sculptures, but creating a studio/makerspace to do it in.

Tyka earned a PhD in Biophysics in 2007 and went to work as a research fellow studying the structure and dynamics of protein molecules. His particular area of interest is protein folding, and he has written computer simulation software to better understand the process. Tyka says that “protein folding is the way our genetic code is interpreted from an abstract sequence of data into the functional enzymes and nano machines that drive our bodies.”

Tyka got interested in sculpture in 2009 when he helped design and construct Groovik’s Cube, a 35ft tall, functional, multi-player Rubik’s cube. The cube will soon be on view at New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center as part of its Beyond Rubik’s Cube Exhibit.
Tyka was obviously very familiar with the protein forms and knew how he wanted them to look. He chose to work in copper, a warm, soft metal, because he wanted the sculptures “to look smooth, soft, liquid. Proteins are not solid objects, they’re more like jelly, they move and vibrate. I wanted to reflect that property somehow.”
http://www.miketyka.com/#intro
http://thefinchandpea.com/2014/02/19/the-art-of-science-copper-jell...

http://www.miketyka.com/#groovikscube

Older Adults Benefit from Music Training Early in Life:
Biological Evidence for Long-Term Training-Driven
Plasticity
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/brainvolts/documents/WhiteSchwoch_e...
Aging results in pervasive declines in nervous system function. In the auditory system, these declines include neural timing delays in
responsetofast-changingspeechelements;thiscausesolderadultstoexperiencedifficultyunderstandingspeech,especiallyinchalleng-
ing listening environments. These age-related declines are not inevitable, however: older adults with a lifetime of music training do not
exhibit neural timing delays. Yet many people play an instrument for a few years without making a lifelong commitment. Here, we
examinedneuraltiminginagroupofhumanolderadultswhohadnominalamountsofmusictrainingearlyinlife,butwhohadnotplayed
an instrument for decades. We found that a moderate amount (4–14 years) of music training early in life is associated with faster neural
timing in response to speech later in life, long after training stopped (
40 years). We suggest that early music training sets the stage for
subsequentinteractionswithsound.Theseexperiencesmayinteractovertimetosustainsharpenedneuralprocessingincentralauditory
nuclei well into older age.

It sounds like a perfect marriage of art and science: music in Wake Forest’s Innovation Quarter.

About 38 pianists, from 10 to 88 years old, will play five continuous hours of music on Saturday at WFU’s Biotech Place, as part of a two-day festival celebrating the birthday of Frederic Chopin (March 1, 2014)

http://www.journalnow.com/relishnow/the_arts/performing_arts/arts-a...

Science as Art Competition

2014 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
April 21-25, 2014
San Francisco, California

http://www.mrs.org/spring-2014-science-as-art-competition/

Exploring the Art of Science
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/Exploring-the-Art-...

S&T art reception inspired by science and research
Missouri University of Science and Technology will host a reception for the spring art show titled “Art Inspired by Science and Engineering” in early March.

The Campus Art Committee will present a reception at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, in the Leach Theatre Lobby in Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla, Mo. The reception is free and open to the public. Drinks and light snacks will be served during the event, which will be hosted by Luce Myers, lecturer of arts, languages, and philosophy at S&T.
http://news.mst.edu/2014/02/st-art-reception-inspired-by-science-an...

International Flameworking Conference at Salem Community College to spotlight art and science
http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2014/02/international_flameworkin...

The mysterious spiral located in the Egyptian desert wasn’t made by aliens. According to LiveScience, the spiral, which has perplexed Google Earth users for years, is actually “an environmental art installation” called Desert Breath.

In 1997, Desert Breath was created by the D.A.ST. Arteam (Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou and Stella Constantinides) to address the desert “as a state of mind, a landscape of the mind.”

http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/mysterious-egyptian-spiral-spot...

Museum Exhibit Gives Perspective To Marine Debris Through Science And Art

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/marine-debris-anchorage-mu...

Art in Science: A Berkeley perspective

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/02/26/art-in-science-a-berkeley...

The Stunning Symbiosis between Math and Knitting
http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/the-stunning-symbiosis-...

Arts Catalyst :

Alistair McClymont's Beam Time Residency

Together with Artquest and the Central Laser Facility we are pleased to announce that Alistair McClymont has been selected from a field of over 60 high quality applications for this new three-month research residency.  This will will give McClymont an opportunity to develop his practice (and potentially a new body of work), through a period of intense research and engagement with leading scientists and the frontier science that they conduct at the Central Laser Facility.

Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica

It's your last chance to see Torsten Lauschmann's Whistler and Ice Diamond commissions for the Ice Lab: New Architecture and Science in Antarctica exhibition at MOSI, Manchester (until 2 March).  The show then heads south to New Zealand's Ice Fest 2014. 

Call for participation: Making_Life – a research platform for art and synthetic biology
Call for participation
Making_Life
– a research platform for art and synthetic biology with three working periods

Making_Life is a project by the Finnish Society of Bioart in collaboration with Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts – Aalto University Finland and Bio:Fiction Vienna Austria within the SYNENERGENE EU Project.

Working period I:
22nd – 27th of May at Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts – Aalto University Helsinki/ Finland.
http://bioartsociety.fi/archives/2407

Soil Culture Artist Residencies Call for Applications (Round 1)

February 2014

Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) is delighted to invite applications for the first of its Soil Culture artist residencies. In the lead up to and coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Soils 2015 the short residencies are aimed at encouraging an exploration of the importance of soil.

Taking place across the South West of the UK the residencies will not only provide dedicated time for experimentation, research and the development of new work but also unparalleled access to facilities, expertise and working contexts
http://ccanw.co.uk/artistresidencies-round-1.htm

Artful Science Logos Honor Greatest Astronomers and Physicists of All Time
http://www.space.com/24677-greatest-physicists-astronomers-logos-sc...

'She Blinded Me With Science'
You could make a plausible argument that '80s pop star Thomas Dolby has been blinded with science.

Since he was a teen, Dolby, now 55, has looked for ways to blend technology with sound — whether that meant writing a quirky synthpop anthem that rose to No. 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1982 ("She Blinded Me With Science") or inventing a cousin of the polyphonic ringtone likely playing on your cellphone today.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/midnight-sun-blog/b...

Images from the app The Art of Science: Butterfly and Moth Paintings by the Scott Sisters, which will be launched on Friday.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2115326/app-showcases-scott-siste...

Supahcute Science Fair, An Art Show Celebrating the Magic of Science at Leanna Lin’s Wonderland in Los Angeles
http://laughingsquid.com/supahcute-science-fair-an-art-show-celebra...

A molecular ballet under the X-ray laser
An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) choreographed a kind of molecular ballet in the X-ray beam. With this work, the researchers have cleared important hurdles on the way to X-ray images of individual molecules, as they explain in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters. CFEL is a cooperation of DESY, the University of Hamburg, and the Max Planck Society.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/03/01/a.molecular.ballet.unde...!+Science+News+-+Popular%29

Cognitive sciences, visual arts intersect at conference
Speakers explore topics including neuroaesthetics and literature from diverse perspectives
The debate on The nature of neuroscience’s role in explaining aesthetic experience took on 1st, March, 2014, as a group of experts spoke at a day-long conference, “Neuroscience, Cognition, and the Arts.”
The event was intended to “foster cross-disciplinary dialogue, eager to spark conversations.” The recruited speakers were selected for being “exemplary at communicating their work,” especially to those less familiar with the fields.
Starr, who has studied the neuroscience of aesthetics for the past seven years, told The Herald that her work focuses on brain responses to music, writing and visual art. During her presentation, she touched on positive and negative emotion factors, individual differences in aesthetic experience, the reward element and the movement and motor properties at play when one observes art.
Bevil Conway, associate professor of neuroscience at Wellesley College, spoke about understanding color through multiple disciplines. He told The Herald he hoped his presentation would convey an appreciation for the different lenses through which color can be examined — scientific, artistic, philosophical, historical, biological and psychological. “None has priority,” he said.
Alva Noe, a philosophy professor at the University of California at Berkeley, was more critical of the role neuroscience plays in understanding aesthetic responses to art and emphasized the field’s limits in quantifying the human experience.
Rebecca Saxe, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illuminated the neural pathways underlying human processing of narratives. Saxe’s research explores empathy, moral judgment and interpersonal conflict through neuroscientific imaging technologies, and her talk touched on such concepts as they related to literary art.
Alan Richardson, professor of English at Boston College, gave the final presentation of the day — “Imagination: Interdisciplinary Contact Zone.” Richardson told The Herald he hoped to get across the idea that a humanities concept — imagination —that can seem old-fashioned is actually an up-and-coming research topic.
http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/03/03/cognitive-sciences-visua...

Artists weave data into stories in ‘The Observant Eye’ at Wheaton
“The Observant Eye” is the final show in a four-part series of exhibitions exploring connections between science and art at Wheaton College’s Beard and Weil Galleries.
http://norton.wickedlocal.com/article/20140303/NEWS/140309211

To create a partnership with a bio-tech firm as a way to explore careers which blended art and science. For the past four years, the advanced painting students have had their bio-tech-themed art displayed publicly in the Carlsbad offices of Thermo Fisher.

http://www.delmartimes.net/2014/03/02/community-partnerships-a-focu...

The Neuroscience and Art of Film Scores

http://worldsciencefestival.com/webcasts/art_of_the_score_the_mind_...

From GV ART:

Encyclopedia Galactica

Retrospective Exhibition

continues until 17 April 2014

This exhibition within an exhibition, features new work and revisits previously exhibited work from the last five years of the gallery programme. Towards the Common Room is the inauguration of a research project on the Gaberbocchus Press Common Room, a series of weekly discussions on art and science hosted by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson in London between August 1957 and July 1959.

Science and art come together on Mars- In Photos:
View them here:
http://globalnews.ca/news/1186620/the-artistry-of-mars-the-red-plan...

SXSWedu panel explores integrating art into science projects
http://impactnews.com/sxsw/education/sxswedu-panel-explores-integra...

Teach arts and sciences together
Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one — to create bold thinkers.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_...

Climate Change And Sea Level Rise Will One Day Threaten Cultural World Heritage Sites
Loss of cultural world heritage and currently inhabited places to sea-level rise
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/3/034001/article
Abstract

The world population is concentrated near the coasts, as are a large number of Cultural World Heritage sites, defined by the UNESCO. Using spatially explicit sea-level estimates for the next 2000 years and high-resolution topography data, we compute which current cultural heritage sites will be affected by sea-level rise at different levels of sustained future warming. As indicators for the pressure on future cultural heritage we estimate the percentage of each country's area loss, and the percentage of current population living in regions that will be permanently below sea level, for different temperature levels. If the current global mean temperature was sustained for the next two millennia, about 6% (40 sites) of the UNESCO sites will be affected, and 0.7% of global land area will be below mean sea level. These numbers increase to 19% (136 sites) and 1.1% for a warming of 3 K. At this warming level, 3–12 countries will experience a loss of more than half of their current land surface, 25–36 countries lose at least 10% of their territory, and 7% of the global population currently lives in regions that will be below local sea level. Given the millennial scale lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, our results indicate that fundamental decisions with regard to mankind's cultural heritage are required.

Equations Are Art inside a Mathematician’s Brain
A brain area associated with emotional reactions to beauty activates when mathematicians view especially pleasing formulas
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/equations-are-art-inside-...

The Neuroscience and Art of Film Scores
http://worldsciencefestival.com/webcasts/art_of_the_score_the_mind_...

An Artistic Climate Transforms Data into Art
http://www.livescience.com/43905-science-data-as-art-spectacles.html

Awesome piece of space art from NASA doubles as science!
http://blog.seattlepi.com/bigscience/2014/03/06/awesome-piece-of-sp...