Science
How pioneering climate-change science dated one of Britain's oldest houses
Landmark Trust's restoration finds that oak timber used to build Welsh house was felled in the winters of 1418-19 and 1420-21
Goodbye Venice, goodbye Ravenna, goodbye Ferrara, goodbye Carthage?
Many World Heritage Sites around the Mediterranean are at grave risk from sea-level rise by 2100, report says
When the avant-garde met E=mc2: the story behind Dimensionism
Supported by prominent figures in its day, the little known movement is at last being rescued from obscurity
Uffizi launches Leonardo da Vinci 500th celebrations across Italy
New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester
Art meets science in new gallery at King’s College London
Free venue joins a growing global network of Science Gallery spaces
Trevor Paglen lets you view the world as the machines see it
Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence
Gerhard Richter creates Foucault pendulum for Münster church
Artist's donated installation pays tribute to "a small victory for science"
Dinosaur skeleton previously unknown to science auctioned in the Eiffel Tower
Aguttes sold the fossil to an anonymous buyer, who may name the new species, despite protests from paleontologists
Artists deliver climate-change message that time is running out
They are increasingly sounding the alarm on global warming, through new works and collaborations with scientists
The dark web, surveillance dolls and Van Gogh’s zombie ear: technology’s role in art debated at Boston conference
While artists and museums embrace futuristic tools, legal experts point to a number of pitfalls with cutting-edge work
Cern’s resident artists to create work for Art Basel
Darkroom installation will use data collected at the particle physics centre
Robot wars: Mark Pauline and Survival Research Laboratories
The Bay Area artist and his team build massive machines that act in dangerous performances—and they are opening their first gallery show in New York
Met’s science labs shed light on other museums’ collections
New York institutions are accessing equipment and expertise thanks to $2m, six-year grant
A Syrian in space
The astronaut Muhammed Faris was hailed a national hero in 1987 after accompanying a Soviet crew on a trip to the Mir space station
There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal
Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work
Sergei Korolev: the unknown winner of the space race
As the countdown to London's Cosmonauts show begins, we speak to the daughter of the rocket scientist who blasted Yuri Gagarin into space
Pompeian frescoes cured with antibiotics
Bacteria removed from Villa of the Mysteries frieze during restoration
Oxford's Weston Library to dust for hyperspectral fingerprints
Researchers to use imaging technology to identify invisible-to-the-eye artefacts
Art Basel Miami Beach to be studied for Swiss sociology project
Collectors and dealers alike must prepare for questioning as art-money relationship comes under the microscope
Infrared-light technology gets funding boost
Technology could foresee deterioration of artworks
"Naked scanners" being used to research mummies
A new use for airport screening technology
An advance in iron preservation aids conservators
Work on Civil War submarine leads to pioneering technique
Stopping the passage of time: Colour photography conservation
A new technique aims to prevent colour prints from fading—but is it legal?
Book review: Kirsh and Levenson's "Seeing through paintings: physical examination in art-historical studies"
A popular, non-technical explanation of the physical composition of paintings is not easy
Deliberation over ownership of submerged vessels and their booty at the bottom of the ocean leads to Unesco intervention
An estimated three million shipwrecks lay undiscovered. UNESCO is calling for a global treaty to protect them. Salvors say it is unrealistic and unworkable, despite developments in deep-sea exploration technology
Passport to the universe: Virtual reality at the Hayden Planetarium
Clare Henry saw the latest high-tech astronomical display at in New York and says scientists have taken art to new heights
New laser technology for painting restoration
Revolutionary non-contact cleaning method to be unveiled this month at Liverpool’s laser conservation conference