As the coronavirus swept across the globe this spring, the Scripps Research Center for Computational Structural Biology in association with the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank drew attention to the virus’s structure through art.

“We come from the stars,” says artist and astronomer Dr. Annette Lee. But she doesn’t just mean the atoms that make up our physical beings, as told by astrophysicists.

The Exploring Life Through SciArt exhibition united the science and art communities of East Lansing, Michigan. Organized by the Michigan State University Science Communication Organization (MSU SciComm) in 2019, this exhibition featured original science-art collaborations created by university science students and local artists.

Catie Cuan, a performer, choreographer, and technologist, lives by the notion that “dance is harmonious with everything.”

Coding is often used as a functional tool, such as for building websites or analyzing data. But for creative coder Zach Lieberman, code is an artistic medium.

Why paint with watercolours when you can paint with antibiotics? Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Vineetha Zacharia found a unique way to blend her science with her love of art. She paints with an antibiotic called actinorhodin, which is one of the colourful byproducts of the bacterium she studies.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) first-year student Anjali Chadha still remembers her early classroom days; that boys were taught to explore activities and be adventurous, while she and other girls were not.

Growing up collecting scarab beetles, reading about butterflies and learning taxonomy, it’s no surprise that AAAS Member Emir Memišević ended up with a bug-related career—beekeeping.

At least once a week, Carnegie Institution mineralogist and AAAS Fellow Robert Hazen finds himself surrounded by eagles and ospreys in the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

When tasked with planning an activity about how fossils influence pop culture at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, AAAS Member Gabriel-Philip Santos had an idea to make his talk stand out.

Living on ships to film what lurks in the depths of the ocean is normal for AAAS Member Caitlin Bailey. In fact, it’s her job.