See the garden blooming in a 'super sewer' deep below London
12 July 2023
The playfully named Loo Gardens in the Thames Tideway Tunnel is an art installation intended to replicate the flora and fauna of the river
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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef
7 June 2023
Ocean Sentinels is a series of mostly underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor, who hopes the statues will be colonised by corals and other threatened marine life
Famed abstract artists capture nature as you’ve never seen it before
26 April 2023
The pioneering work of Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian, who trained in the late 19th century, is finally brought into conversation at the Tate Modern in London
Art of the ocean: How artists have depicted the marine world
14 September 2022
From Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater statues, walking to oblivion, to Carl Chun's detailed illustration of an octopus, a new book explores how our oceans have inspired art through the centuries
Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany
9 March 2022
These delicately detailed representations of plants by a founding figure of modern botany are given a new lease of life in the book Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal
Tom Gauld's fantastic new collection of funny science cartoons
8 April 2020
Tom Gauld’s science cartoons appear weekly in New Scientist. He explains how he gets his ideas as his latest collection, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, hits the shelves
Fungi's fabulous future in mental health and sustainable materials
12 February 2020
These images showcase the incredible ways mushrooms can be used for everything from boosting well-being to fashioning baroque high heels
Art prints made using rain, fog and snow reveal the nature of water
29 January 2020
Artist Meghann Riepenhoff uses a Victorian photographic technique and rain, fog and snow to capture the many faces of water
Life and death caught in Petri dishes in a nod to the art of mortality
20 November 2019
This stunning image of Petri dishes full of butterfly wings, mushrooms, moss, glass and metal by Suzanne Anker is a modern reworking of paintings designed to remind us that life is vanity
Discover the artist who builds tiny worlds with basic chemistry
26 June 2019
The photo shows a tiny world created by artist Hicham Berrada from wax, acid, metal salts and chemistry. It comes alive at his exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery
