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Homemade Lava Flows Fuse Science with Art on Video

by Lauren Lipuma and D. Sollosi 29 June 20174 October 2021

An artist’s impulse to recreate natural landscapes leads to fiery scientific explorations that elucidate the behavior of erupting lava and the solid shapes it becomes.

Two views of a new stamp that when warmed by a person’s finger, switches from showing the black disk of the Moon’s silhouette covering the Sun to an illuminated view of the Moon in place of the black disk.
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Innovative Postage Stamp Celebrates Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse

by Randy Showstack 20 June 201719 April 2023

The eclipse expert whose photographs appear on the stamp said he is thrilled about the opportunities that the stamp and the eclipse afford to excite people about science.

Mother-of-pearl clouds over Lørenskog, near Oslo, Norway, half an hour after sunset.
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Science Offers New Clues About Paintings by Munch and Leonardo

Bas den Hond, Science Writer by Bas den Hond 27 April 201725 January 2023

An unusual type of cloud might explain the sky in The Scream, and scientific verisimilitude reveals which is the real da Vinci masterpiece, new studies suggest.

Mount Rainier National Park centennial postage stamp.
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Stamps Celebrate National Parks on Agency's Centennial

by Randy Showstack 25 August 20163 November 2022

Striking images showcase iconic and lesser known U.S. national parks, seashores, and historic sites.

The Amoeba People are Dustin Jordan, Ryan Mosley, and Ray Hedgpeth
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Amoeba People Sing Quirky Tunes About Geoscience

by Randy Showstack 29 July 20167 October 2021

A whimsical backstory identifies the musicians as aliens from the planet Crouton sent to Earth to transmit scientific information back home in song.

Mars colony in The Space Between Us
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As Mars Gets Close, So Does a Blitz of Red Planet Dramas

by Randy Showstack 27 May 201627 October 2022

NASA's first Mars program director advised the creators of the new film The Space Between Us, which opens this summer, on the science related to Mars colonization.

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Tall Order

by M. Traer 14 December 20152 May 2023

A cartoonist wrestles with the Fall Meeting scientific program in search of amazing science to inspire drawings on new findings presented at the meeting.

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The Melodies of Monsoons: Weather in Indian Classical Music

by C. Uberoi 5 November 20155 October 2021

Western composers evoke nature's fury with orchestral music that imitates the sounds of weather. Indian composers depict the monsoon rains in more abstract terms with the classical raga system.

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Aurora Painting Pays Tribute to Civil War's End

by J. J. Love 24 September 20155 October 2021

Frederic Edwin Church's 1865 arctic landscape, Aurora Borealis, is a beautiful depiction of nature. It might also be a memorial reflection on the end of the war.

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Musical Composition Conveys Climate Change Data

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 21 May 20155 October 2021

A student at the University of Minnesota communicates climate change science in an innovative way.

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