Though the sumptuous images in Dustin Arnold and Nicholas Cope’s Stamen series may resemble a throwback to the romantic oil paintings of the 19th century, they’re actually the contemporary result of a ...

Maps used to be beautiful, when cartography was as much of an art as a science, and dragons were as likely to be waiting on the other side of the world as new spice trades. But as of late, maps have ...

We've seen some colorful map mashups in the past, like Hypercities and HeatMap, but few are as abstract and beautiful to look at as Stamen Design's Pretty Maps. The result is a map that's not so much ...

We used to have cartographers. Before satellites took over, these scientist-artists painted our view of the world. I can only imagine the feeling of unrolling a scroll, and following a coastline of ...

The last few years have seen an explosion in photo editing. In a pre-digital era, changing the tone and feel of your photographs was for professionals. Photoshop made it easy, and Instagram brought ...

The "classical" theory of the nature of the floral organs as modified foliar appendages is attacked, especially from the standpoint of its inadequacy in explaining the origin of the stamen. A concept ...

This article was taken from the April issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

A study has been made of the vascular supply to the floral parts, with the exception of the gynoecium, of representatives of certain putative primitive Angiosperm orders, the Parietales and Malvales ...

Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to Dr. Stamen Grigorov, a Bulgarian physician and microbiologist, on his 142nd birthday. Grigorov was the first scientist to discover Lactobacillus bulgaricus, the ...