When Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night," one of his most iconic paintings, he incorporated a mix of memory, observation, and, perhaps, his intuition for mathematics and nature.

They found that “The Starry Night” was turbulent, and not just by artistic standards. A decade later, astrophysicist James Beattie analyzed the variations in luminance in a patch in the middle ...

When he painted The Starry Night was he already thinking about the afterlife?” asks Alistair. “After all, a year or so after completing the picture, following a deterioration in his mental ...