Art students work for years to learn to create good portraits that capture the likeness of a subject. Even among trained artists, it takes a special talent to draw faces accurately. This problem ...

Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

Jeanne Boylan was working in a small Oregon sheriff’s office in 1973 when she began to wonder why the police sketches she saw didn’t match descriptions she had heard from the victims. There’s a better ...