Janna Levin reading poetry at Universe in Verse at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn in 2018. Credit: Annie Minoff Every year, hundreds pack Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York for “The Universe In Verse,” a ...

In “Can Our Eyes Fool Our Taste Buds?,” children’s poet April Halprin Wayland summarizes a fun experiment in taste perception where people were quizzed after drinking red and green drinks that ...

SCIENCE VERSE, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, Viking, 2004, 40 pages, $16.99 (ISBN 0-670-91057-0) "Science Verse," written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, is a charming collection of ...

Friday from 7-8:30 p.m., Eric Magrane, poet-in-residence at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, will speak at Antigone Books to talk about the connection between poetry, art and the natural world. The ...

Creating some form of art is commonly believed to help older people stay mentally and physically healthy. Scientific research hasn't quite caught up with that belief. But that hasn't deterred the ...

It is hard to find good children's poetry about science, as most scientists do not write poems, and most poets do not do experiments. John Scieszka and Lane Smith's Science Verse includes poems ...

In 2000, Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate, coined the term “Anthropocene.” The word designates the epoch in which human activity shapes ecosystems and where its presence ...

Science and poetry — a richly vexed topic badly in need of rethinking. In my years at the University of Calgary, I came to know Canadian poet Christian Bok, who, to the amazement of all, published a ...

For most engineers and scientists, wandering lonely as a cloud or being compared to a summer rose are not phrases which normally enter their minds. But University of Manchester science and engineering ...