The new work finds that the eddies in “The Starry Night” obey this law with remarkable precision, with an exponent of –1.67 or –1.68 (depending on whether you’re measuring across or up ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted “ The Starry Night ” 135 years ago, he captured a subjective feeling about the heavens. But, as it turns out, real science is also reflected in the iconic piece ...

A starry night harlequin toad in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range. Fundación Atelopus One of the reasons that scientists have not seen the toad for so long is that they have ...

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death.