Santorini, with its gorgeous sunsets and blue waters, attracts around 2 million tourists per year. But what many people don’t know is that the island is an active volcano. In fact, in 1950, lava flowed from the island, and in 2012, the volcano caused a series of small earthquakes. This activity caused Dr. Emilie Hooft, an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences and the University of Oregon, to make a trip to Greece with the hopes of finding out a little more about the volcano.

This year marks the 500-year anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death, and even all these years later, we look at his work and admire his capacity to observe and create. His work is also the pinnacle of the intersection of art and science, and Ben Shneiderman, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, points this out in his latest article on The Conversation. “[Da Vinci] was able to compare the speed of a bird’s wing movement downwards and upwards.