The clients had paid many thousands of dollars for the Chinese silk samples with the bird motifs and now wanted reassurance that they were indeed from the Warring States period (about 480–221 B.C.).

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

The bond between art and anatomy is ancient. Leonardo da Vinci once filled his notebooks with meticulous drawings of muscles, bones and the fragile scaffolding of the human face. On a campus in ...

SAN DIEGO — Students at George Mason University in Virginia are learning forensic art techniques by working on an unidentified remains case from San Diego. The class, led by veteran forensic artist ...

While I have a history of working as an art therapist in the prisons and have recently been involved with the courts in different capacities, I have made it clear that I am not a forensic art ...

In painter Edvard Munch's Girls on the Pier, three women lean against a railing facing a body of water in which houses are reflected. A peach-colored orb appears in the sky, but, curiously, casts no ...

DOVER — Dover Public Library on Monday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. will host “Forensic Science Roadshow” with Paul Zambella, a former forensic scientist at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory. This ...