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'We're all Earthlings': the scientists using art to explore the cosmos.

Since 1984, the scientific research institute SETI has worked with some of the brightest minds on our planet: astronomers, solar system dynamics experts, exoplanet detection specialists, astrochemists. All of them are on a mission to decode the universe’s mysteries – but has one area of expertise been overlooked?

F.L.O.W.: Women’s Wrestling And Art Face Off In The Ring.

Jennifer Juniper Stratford was eight months pregnant when she climbed into the wrestling ring.

It was the first live show of the Future Ladies of Wrestling—F.L.O.W. for short—and she wasn't going to be on the sidelines.

While the Netflix series GLOW may have helped bring new fans to female wrestling, Stratford has been dreaming of getting in the ring since she was a little girl watching the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling pile-drive each other. “My mother and my sister and I would watch it together," she explains. “We were such huge fans that we actually hired Matilda the Hun to perform at a party in the 1980s and attack my mom's boyfriend."

3-D Technologies Help The Blind Experience Art More Fully.

Companies like 3DPhotoworks and Unseen Art are making classic artworks like the Mona Lisa accessible to new audiences.

As you travel through the galleries of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, you may notice visitors doing the unthinkable: touching the art.

The Album That Plays Itself.

Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns, is a dumb machine that turns data into noise into hypnotic music.

You don’t need an MP3 player, a turntable, or a CD player to listen to Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns. All you need is a pair of headphones—“not earbuds,” says the composer—and a willingness to hear music in noise.

The 34-year-old Perich’s compositions push the border between white noise and electronic music, frequently straddling the two as if the static on your old television started emitting a strangely beautiful pattern of sound. But Perich doesn’t just compose music: His music is the instrument itself. He composes sound in code, carefully stringing together each 1 and 0 to transform numbers into a symphony.

The Dutch Golden Age’s Female Painters Finally Receive a Show of Their Own.

Every art history student knows the names Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer. But today, these men’s female contemporaries—among others, Judith Leyster, Maria Sibylla Merian and Magdalena van de Passe—remain little-known, their contributions to the Golden Age of Dutch Painting overlooked in favor of presenting a male-dominated artistic cano