Botanical illustration is the most popular genre of natural history illustration. Many botanical artists still work within the traditional sphere, illustrating scientific journals and popular ...

Reading Anna Escardó’s SCIENCE ILLUSTRATION: Visual Milestones From the 15th Century to Today (Taschen, 436 pp., $80) is like looking over the shoulder of those scientists.

In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a ...

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries ... it was the sort of infection that modern antibiotics could easily ... These lovely illustrations are the result: [h/t ...

Despite societal constraints, a select group of pioneering women found a path to contribute to science through illustration. Drawing was a decidedly “womanly” pastime in the early 1900s, ...

Medical and life science illustration helps explain surgeries, scientific discoveries or teaches us something in a museum. But the most important thing it must be, is accurate.