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Marcus du Sautoy's new book is good on maths, less so on the arts

7 May 2025

The mathematician is out to show the close link between maths and the arts. This idea isn't new, and while Blueprints is lyrical on maths, it falls a bit flat when it comes to covering artists
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Exhibition uses art to explore the mysteries of the quantum world

12 March 2025

Cosmic Titans, a new exhibition at the University of Nottingham, UK, is a powerful collaboration of artists and quantum physicists that sets out to make the intangible tangible
Jennifer Walshe, 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music

×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ recommends 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music

19 February 2025

The books, TV, games and more that ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ staff have enjoyed this week
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A rich guide to the science of imagination also digs into art

15 January 2025

Neurologist Adam Zeman's excellent exploration of the power and complexity of our imaginations literally needs more space to house all its riches
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Major US art event explores the bonds between art and science

13 November 2024

More than 70 exhibitions across Southern California are taking on the relationship between art and science, with compelling results
Male artist, painting a new creative painting in his art studio

Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

15 May 2024

What makes some people so creative? There are many common beliefs about the neuroscience of innovation, but they fail to capture its true complexity, says Anna Abraham in her book The Creative Brain: Myths and truths
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Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark

3 January 2024

At a novel sci-art festival celebrating the many cultural and scientific needs for dark skies in a time of serious light pollution, Alex Wilkins looks for hope
Young woman, wearing a orange jacket, is reading a book on an ebook reader during sunset over Himalayas. She is sitting on the top of a mountain and holding the e-reader.The afternoon sun on the background. Mount Everest National Park. This is the highest national park in the world, with the entire park located above 3,000 m ( 9,700 ft). This park includes three peaks higher than 8,000 m, including Mt Everest. Therefore, most of the park area is very rugged and steep, with its terrain cut by deep rivers and glaciers. Unlike other parks in the plain areas, this park can be divided into four climate zones because of the rising altitude. The climatic zones include a forested lower zone, a zone of alpine scrub, the upper alpine zone which includes upper limit of vegetation growth, and the Arctic zone where no plants can grow.

20 non-fiction and popular science books to look forward to in 2024

27 December 2023

Why is gravity still a puzzle? Do humans make pandemics? Are we all ocean people? 2024’s best reads, by authors from Claudia de Rham to Helen Scales, probe our toughest questions
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Erland Cooper interview: The composer who melts hearts with icy music

6 December 2023

Research into the acoustics of Svalbard's glaciers and caves is at the heart of Orkney composer Erland Cooper's latest works
Credit: David Blandy, Atomic Light, installation view, John Hansard Gallery, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Reece Straw

Atomic Light review: Solar astronomers rescue an uneven installation

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

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