16 June 2023
A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient people in the region expressed their creativity, including sculpted figurines, a communal drum and perhaps a previously unrecognised form of writing
30 April 2023
Now there is a way to use ink to write words or patterns in liquid, much as you might write on a solid surface, and the letters could conceivably last a very long time
22 March 2023
Four films make up Atomic Light by video and installation artist David Blandy, a work marred by overstatement, but saved by the story of two solar astronomers who drew the sun on the day of the Hiroshima blast
22 March 2023
From a virtual-reality snowscape used for pain relief for burns to immersive art to boost your mood, we all gain from aesthetic engagement, argues a book from Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross that needed a little more science to make it a great read
4 January 2023
Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing
4 January 2023
Science is key to addressing global health challenges, but if its advances are to be implemented then researchers must work hand in glove with the arts, says Danielle Olsen
21 November 2022
The performance of image-generating AIs drops when trained using images previously created by other AIs, which may create problems for them given the proliferation of these images
12 October 2022
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27 September 2022
Artificial intelligences can create images inspired by the human-generated art they train on. This is raising concerns over copyright and artists’ livelihoods
10 August 2022
When a beaked whale carcass washed up near her home, part of a mass stranding around the region, Mhairi Killin was inspired to launch an artistic challenge to the military's impact in the area
