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Learn about Violet Dandridge, Aime Motter Awl, Carolyn Bartlett Gast, and Marilyn Schotte: four women from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology who ...

The leading professional organization for natural science illustrators is conducting a survey on how their authoritative Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration is used by professionals and ...

Many view the scientific process as a tool to preclude human emotions from influencing the search for truth. But those emotions are essential when it comes time to help people connect to the science, ...

If you've ever looked at a beautiful flower, a bird in flight, or even a butterfly landing on a bush and thought, "I wish I could draw that," you're in luck. One of this area's best-kept secrets is ...

We may often encounter art as an interpretive device as we study science topics. From very young students to adult learners, we humans find illustrations to be a form of information that is easy to ...

Finding women’s contributions in scientific history can be challenging, and not just because there often weren’t many women working in science. In a post for the Google Blog “The Keyword” last month, ...

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The leading professional organization for natural science illustrators is conducting a survey on how their authoritative Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration is used by professionals and ...