Modern technology helps shed light on illnesses in artists of the past
...unch could see the blood red sky during an evening stroll in Oslo, which is half a world away. Some also believe that Munch recreated the scene in 1893 while his sister, Laura, was being treated for schizophrenia. Was he trying to express his sister's emotional torment? It is also possible that he had a ps...50,000-year-old plant may warn of the death of tropical ice caps
COLUMBUS, Ohio A simple stroll after a full day of field research near a high Andean glacier in Peru led glaciologist Lonnie Thompson to discover a bed of previously hidden plants that date back at least 50,000 years. And while that discovery is novel enough to please any scientis...