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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


Nuke Image Round

Hypnotic art has its roots in the terrifying reality of nuclear bombs

12 March 2025

In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the horror" of growing up near a nuclear bomb testing site


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Graffiti can now be removed in minutes without damaging underlying art

13 April 2021

A cleaning system that uses a hydrogel can remove graffiti from street art within minutes, without any alteration to the artwork underneath


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Don't Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes

14 November 2018

Watch a town descend into chaos after a social media hack, learn how much we really know about AI, explore science-art links – and peer inside black holes


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Dawns, Mine, Crystal review – art with a crafty message for science

24 October 2018

Science isn't just there to be useful, it's a kind of craft. That's the take-home message from a leading Korean artist whose new work is shaped by a spell at CERN


CERN-inspired artwork HALO will make the invisible, visible

CERN-inspired artwork HALO will make the invisible, visible

11 June 2018

Conveying the quantum world is the ultimate challenge for artist duo Semiconductor, who turn the most abstruse scientific observations into captivating sensory experiences


The pinkest pink, apparently.

Painter, painter of the wall, what's the fairest colour of all?

2 January 2018

The race to find the blackest black or pinkest pink has caused spats in the art world. The big difficulty is how to objectively judge them


Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations

Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations

31 December 2017

The art produced by collaborations between scientists and artists is largely overlooked or slated. The only answer is to make work that’s too good to ignore


Carlo Rovelli

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

22 June 2016

Carlo Rovelli reflects on why time is fundamentally human, and how physics is like music – you don't have to be able to create it to appreciate it


Designs from Islamic art

Material that can grow when stretched is inspired by Islamic art

16 March 2016

Geometric patterns based on ancient Islamic designs allow metamaterials to move in ways that could be useful for medical devices and satellite technology


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