He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

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 found ...

Two studies published in 2025 pushed back on the claims that the Dutch painter’s famous work accurately depicted a ...

The whirling shapes in the painting, which was created in 1889, follow a ‘distinct pattern of structures’ seen in the natural environment, according to the study The whirling shapes in Vincent van ...

A team of scientists sparked a heated debate over whether Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” depicts turbulence, a complex physical phenomenon.

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 new ...

Scientists measured the relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” along with variances in luminance of the paint, to see if the laws that apply in the ...

It’s often said that art imitates nature, but in the case of a Vincent van Gogh enthusiast in Bosnia, nature has been corralled to imitate art. When Halim Zukic bought a plot of land two decades ago ...

Plus 84 other microscopic masterpieces of artwork. Microbiologist Melanie Sullivan of Missouri recreated Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" for the American Society of Microbiology's 2015 Agar Art ...

A lot of really cool LEGO sets aimed at adults have come out in recent years. These are expensive builds meant to be fun to put together and for display. One such build that has been popular for quite ...