Bliss. 11. The lights of The Starry Night seem to flicker because of how the human brain works. In this Avi Ofer-animated TED-Ed video, Natalya St. Clair explains how Van Gogh’s painting is an ...

We’re asking you to look at a painting you’ve probably seen before: “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. (Sign up here to be notified about future challenges, which are published on the ...

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. Researchers ...

In his swirling 1889 masterwork, The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh took certain artistic liberties. The quaint valley village is imaginary and the brilliant crescent moon was actually in waning ...

Yet, a study released today in Physics of Fluids shows that the artist Vincent van Gogh captured theories of fluid dynamics in “The Starry Night,” depicting complex patterns of turbulence at ...