A dramatically choreographed performance that veered from gracefully spinning aerialists to gyrating, hoop-wielding dancers wearing glow-in-the-dark costumes, twirled its way to first place in the annual Dance Your Ph.D. Contest. The video, titled Representations of the Braid Groups, describes mathematics principles about braid behavior that might leave non-mathematicians scratching their...

There's a secret hidden in a Vincent van Gogh painting. It remained undetected for 128 years, until Mary Schafer, a paintings conservator at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Missouri, discovered it with the aid of a surgical microscope — imbedded in the paint in the foreground of van Gogh's 1889...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. When he published The Sun Also Rises in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and to cosmopolitan literary circles in New York and Chicago....

The new series debuts on the Science Channel today (Nov. 15) at 9 p.m. ET, with two new hosts presenting a bevy of new myths to be busted. And blown up. And hacked into pieces by sword-wielding robots. You know — the usual. [What Is Punkin Chunkin? - Exclusive 'Mythbusters'...

A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that preserves the artist's own handprints sold for more than $450 million at auction tonight (Nov. 15), obliterating the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction, according to Christie's Auction House. Christie's presented the painting, which depicts Jesus Christ...

A viral video showing hundreds of years of varnish being wiped off a centuries-old painting has horrified experts in the field. The short video was posted on Twitter by the art dealer Philip Mould, who hosts the BBC TV show Fake or Fortune? and was involved in the cleaning process,...

Watery walls (Image credit: Photo by Tahsin Ceylan)A diving team led by Tahsin Ceylan, an underwater photographer who has been documenting sites beneath Lake Van in Turkey, has discovered the remains of what may be a castle beneath the waters of the lake. It is about 1 kilometer (less than...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 94-year-old, brightly colored sphinx that once graced the set of the 1923 Hollywood blockbuster, The Ten Commandments, according to an announcement released Monday (Nov. 27) from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center. The 300-lb. (136 kilogram) plaster-of-paris sphinx is in remarkably good condition, said Doug Jenzen, executive director...

Leila Amineddoleh is the founder and managing partner of Amineddoleh & Associates, LLP in New York City, where she specializes in art, cultural heritage and intellectual property law. Amineddoleh contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Last month, I was lucky enough to enjoy a private...

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust. The drawing was discovered at Woolsthorpe Manor, the Lincolnshire, England,home where Newton was born in 1642, said the National Trust,which...

Pablo Picasso painted one of his Blue Period masterpieces, one showing a crouching, cloaked woman, on top of another artist's work. A new examination of the painting, La Miséreuse Accroupie, or The Crouching Beggar, reveals that Picasso painted over a landscape made by another artist, flipping the canvas 90 degrees...

Two photographers captured photographs so much like one another that a stranger thought one of them was stolen. Ron Risman, writing for the photography news site PetaPixel, said he went to Great Island Commons in New Castle, New Hampshire, to capture waves crashing against the Whaleback Lighthouse (pictured above). Risman,...

WASHINGTON — BB-8, the endearing recent addition to the Star Wars droid family, rolled off movie screens and straight into audiences' hearts when it appeared in two of the enduring franchise's recent films: The Force Awakens (Lucasfilm, 2015) and The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm, 2017). But when the spherical droid's creators...

In the blockbuster film Black Panther, the kingdom of Wakanda is a wonderland of fantastic, futuristic technology. There are self-piloting aircraft; cars and planes that can be remotely operated through virtual reality (VR) interfaces; high-definition holographic displays; and magnetic levitation train systems. There is also the newly updated Black Panther...

Paul McCartney revealed in a 1986 interview in Musician magazine that John Lennon once asked him and his wife, Linda, You fancy getting the trepanning done? He was referring to trepanation surgeries that put holes in the skull using hand drills, cutting or scraping techniques. Trepan comes from the Greek...