Archives
Catch up on any pressing information that you may have missed in science and technology.
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Winter 2025
A Museum of Discovery and Progress
Read MoreExhibits maintained in the National Academy of Sciences building from 1924–1941 illustrated fundamental phenomena of nature and recent scientific discoveries.
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Summer 2024
Marie Curie Visits the National Academy of Sciences Building
Read MoreA photograph captures a historic moment on the back steps of the National Academy of Sciences building: Marie Curie, codiscoverer of radium and polonium, stands alongside President Herbert Hoover in the fall of 1929.
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Spring 2024
Celebrating the Centennial of the National Academy of Sciences Building
Read MoreThis year, the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences, designed by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, turns 100 years old.
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Winter 2024
Native Voices in STEM
Read MoreNative Voices in STEM: An Exhibition of Photographs and Interviews is a collection of photographs and texts created by Native scientists and funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Fall 2023
A Curious Collaboration
Dominique Ehrmann, A Curious Collaboration, 2022–2023, textiles and acrylic on cork with wood frame, 30.5 x 40.5 x 3.5 inches. Permanent collection of the National Academy of Sciences. This artwork documents… Read More -
Fall 2022
Remembering the Harrisons
Helen and Newton Harrison, You Can See that Here the Confluence is Pretty… From the Fourth Lagoon, The Lagoon Cycle, 1974–1984. Paper on canvas, acrylic gouache, collage, photographic print with ink,… Read More -
Summer 2022
The C Word: Artists, Scientists, and Patients Respond to Cancer
Read MoreAfter being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Canadian multidisciplinary artist Max Dean began to explore his prognosis through his art practice.
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Summer 2015
Archives – Summer 2015
Skeletal Reflections Chico MacMurtrie’s Skeletal Reflections is an interactive robot sculpture that has stored in its memory a library of body postures from classic painting and sculpture. A camera/computer attached to the… Read More -
Fall 2014
Archives – Fall 2014
Ruben Nieto Thor Came Down to Help Mighty Mouse Against Magneto. Oil on canvas. 32 x 48 inches. 2013 Artist Ruben Nieto grew up in Veracruz, Mexico, reading U.S. comic books,… Read More -
Summer 2014
Archives – Summer 2014
Twister To create his self-portrait, Twister, Dan Collins, a professor of intermedia in the Herberger Institute School of Art at Arizona State University (ASU), spun on a turntable while being digitally… Read More -
Spring 2014
Archives – Spring 2014
University of Texas at Dallas professor John Pomara’s work reflects an interest in the role that human error plays in technology, focusing primarily on the current state of painting and picture… Read More -
Winter 2014
Archives – Winter 2014
Two sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner adorn the newly opened Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building at the University of Texas at Dallas. The pieces were commissioned by the Nasher… Read More