csl7956, Author at Helix

OF PAINT AND POLLOCK

Everything goes in and out of Venice on flat barges — no walls, edges, or rails to steady the contents, even when it’s expensive scientific

BUILDING TOOLKITS WITH BIOLOGY

Graduate student Matthew Verosloff, hangs by one arm off a dirt ledge as he leans his body over the edge of a river. His free

DEAR LAB NOTEBOOK …

As a graduate student getting my PhD in chemistry, I’m expected to keep a laboratory notebook. It’s where I document what I do each day:

A Colorful Job

As I stand in an emerald green room beneath a windmill in Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, wearing a canvas smock and disposable gloves, I am front-row

UNCOVERING A HIDDEN PICASSO

It’s a Friday morning in the painting conservation offices at the Art Institute of Chicago. I’m ushered through security and brought to a staging room.

THE MAGIC OF MAGNETS

As a young girl I could spend hours playing with my parents’ refrigerator magnets. I used to pretend that one magnet was a magic wand

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE PLASTICS

It’s virtually impossible to read this blog without the aid of plastics. Our phones, our computers, our printers, all use the material made popular by

FACE BLINDNESS IN A NUTSHELL: PUTTING A HUMAN FACE ON PROSOPAGNOSIA

Contemporary painter and photographer Chuck Close has displayed artwork at famed galleries around the world. He has published several books of his paintings and was