Science
Demolition of Marie Curie's Paris laboratory suspended at 11th hour
The move has been welcomed by heritage bodies, but scientists—including Curie's great-grandson—support the construction of a new research centre on the site
Revealed: the damp-proof lead layer protecting Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
Scientists discovered extra seam during Operation Night Watch conservation project at the Rijksmuseum
Inaugural $100,000 Sfer Ik Award will support creation of AI-powered habitat for bats
The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle
World's oldest wooden structure discovered in Zambia
A new report reveals that humans were building with wood 476,000 years ago, upending previous beliefs about our ancestors
Diaries of the UK's first female professional astronomer acquired by Bath's Herschel Museum
The revealing handwritten memoirs of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to receive payment from King George III for her interstellar discoveries, has been acquired by the museum that was once her home
‘We went from having two Cézannes to three’: x-ray of still life painting reveals hidden portrait
On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master
Art down to the atom: Cornelia Parker discusses her work with a quantum physicist
The British installation artist sat down with scientist Carlo Rovelli to discover their two disciplines have more in common than one might think
Ghostly self-portrait of Van Gogh discovered on the back of his painting of a peasant
The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland
Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found off Antarctic coast, more than a century after it sank
An expedition team has located the famed shipwreck in what has been described as a "milestone in polar history"
Survival of the fittest: join artists for 12-hour live drawing session inspired by Charles Darwin
The virtual drawing marathon takes place 23 October on the South South platform
Healing Arts programme comes to New York with a two-month schedule of events
Artist commissions, expert discussions and film premieres will take place in the city, starting and ending with a pair of symposia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Machu Picchu may be decades older than previously thought
Radiocarbon dating of human bones and teeth in Peruvian ruins indicate that the Inca first lived at the citadel around 1420, not after 1440
An ancient Roman road may lie beneath Venice’s lagoon, researchers say
Team using sonar technology have found evidence of structures and settlements on the seafloor
Ageing plastic from Communist East Germany comes under the microscope in Getty research project
Scientists will study how Soviet-era household objects "made to last 30 or 40 years" can be preserved
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
Scientists unveil 'whitest paint ever'—and museums can't wait to get their hands on it
The material, which reflects 98% of light, will have significant use in cooling buildings and fighting climate change
Dr Fauci’s 3-D printed coronavirus model given to Smithsonian
The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History
Reap what we sow: Trevor Paglen’s new flower works take an allegorical view of AI
Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity
Number one priority: NASA will give designers $35,000 for a toilet that will work on the moon
Pandemic art: how artists have depicted disease
As the coronavirus forces us to endure an unprecedented time of distant social contact, art can remind us, assure us, of our interconnectedness
New secrets of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to be revealed online next week
Mauritshuis museum's detailed technical examination uncovers new findings on the Dutch artist's brushwork, pigments and technique
Of fossils, prisms and volcanoes: the scientific and imaginative investigations of the polymath Goethe
This extensive volume explores the relationship between the German writer's visual imagination and his fascination with natural science
A beautiful compendium of Early Modern scientific instruments
This exhibition catalogue shows European technological discoveries from the 16th to the 19th century
Book reveals the ways in which artists helped make scientific discoveries
From the 17th to the end of the 19th century natural history depended on illustrations for clarification
Ancient cities rise again: Introducing virtual archaeology
Technology developed by a California-based firm has made it possible to walk through vanished sites.
Venice has no official plan for how to deal with climate change
A new report by Icomos details how the science/culture divide is stopping world heritage coming to the aid of climate change and urges speedy action
Book looks at the persistence of the scroll throughout the Middle Ages
Even when the codex became ubiquitous, scrolls held a special place for the written word
Coming out of one’s shell: new book explores overlooked mollusc art by naturalist's daughters
Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers
William Hunter and the enlightened art of science
A new publication brings together the Scottish surgeon's art collection for the first time in many years
A man-made landscape is writ large on the screen in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
After its US premier at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the visually stunning documentary heads to Berlin