Famous American writer Isaac Asimov once said, “There is an art to science, and science in art.” A new study proves this ...

Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" has stirred the souls of art lovers for over a century. Now, its swirling skies may also speak ...

The swirling patterns in Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” can help us visualize quantum Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). The central spiral and surrounding stars and moon resemble the vortices ...

The new work finds that the eddies in “The Starry Night” obey this law with remarkable precision, with an exponent of –1.67 or –1.68 (depending on whether you’re measuring across or up ...

Photo courtesy Yinxiang Ma. First, they identified The Starry Night ’s 14 main whirling shapes, the churns of whites, blues, and yellows that wrap around stars, the sky, and the moon.

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” has long been admired for its art, but physicists are also intrigued by the science beneath the strokes and swirls.

Scientists have determined the eddies in Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" adhere to Kolmogorov's law, a theory of turbulence that predicts atmospheric movement and scale based on inertial energy.

The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Art Images via Getty Images Zukic purchased more land and hired a team of roughly two dozen gardeners.