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Real-World Results From Artificial Bee Colonies

30/11/2018

Researchers propose a bee colony algorithm in which the search is guided by a scale-free network to improve the optimisation process in real-world problems....

Do You Have A Healthy Personality?

27/11/2018

Researchers found that the healthy personality can be described in terms of the 30 facets of the 'big five' model of personality traits....

Gigantic Mammal ‘Cousin’ Discovered

23/11/2018

The discovery of Lisowicia changes our ideas about the latest history of dicynodonts, and also raises more questions about what made them and dinosaurs so large....

Scientists Discover New ‘Pinwheel’ Star System

21/11/2018

An international team of scientists has discovered a new, massive star system, that also challenges existing theories on how large stars eventually die....

‘Weapons’ Removed From Van Gogh Sculpture

20/11/2018

Controversial items relating to the artist's life were scrapped from original design over fears they could be linked to drug, knife and gun crime....

Evidence of Class Bias in Arts Funding

16/11/2018

The tendency for people from higher social grades to be more likely to attend arts events is down to a mismatch between funding priorities and the public’s taste....

Pain Can Be A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

14/11/2018

New brain imaging research shows that when we expect something to hurt, it does, even if the stimulus isn't so painful....

Restoration of Rare Medieval Altarpiece Reveals Vandalism

13/11/2018

The Battel Hall retable, which survived the fury of 16th-century iconoclasts, bears later scars of graffiti and 'witch marks' against evil spirits. ...

Skill and Competence as a Requirement

11/11/2018

Skill is deployed in many fields of human endeavour Football takes skill. I played football at the same time as did Rodney Marsh, Denis Law and Colin Bell. They were footballers; but I was not. Why...

#MeToo Makes Number Three in ArtReview Power 100

09/11/2018

The #MeToo movement has sparked a rush of exhibitions in galleries and museums, many focusing solely on female artists in the past year. ...

US Art Dealers Mobilising in Support of Democrats

06/11/2018

An initiative by Swing Left is part of an effort to mobilise the left-leaning energies of the art world to get out the vote for Democrats. ...

Superheroes More Violent Than Villains

02/11/2018

Despite positive themes, new research suggests superhero characters often idolised by young viewers may send a strongly negative message when it comes to violence....

Decimation of School Arts Impacting on Science and Medicine

30/10/2018

Education charity the Edge Foundation calls for dramatic changes to the current national curriculum, arguing that creativity should be at the heart of all learning....

Theatre Programmers Called Out For Racism

26/10/2018

Claiming that it is too much of a risk to programme work by black artists is often simply an excuse for racism, a new report argues....

Putting the Mind in Touch with Reality

23/10/2018

Research finds that the possible origins of tactile fact-checking, in everyday life or in compulsive disorders, comes from the specific kind of reassurance that touch gives....

The Neurobiology of Social Aggression

19/10/2018

Research shows signalling mechanism in the brain shapes social behaviour, with implications for understanding social hierarchy, bullying and aggression. ...

Cosmic Titan Discovery

17/10/2018

The galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance. ...

Humans Cause of Sixth Mass Extinction

16/10/2018

If current conservation efforts are not improved, so many mammal species will become extinct during the next five decades that nature will need 3–5 million years to recover....

On The Image

14/10/2018

Two Russian Tourists visiting Salisbury dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcapmages of every kind bombard us daily with information, persuasion and delight. The ‘image stream’...

Marie von Papen Makes UK Debut

12/10/2018

MVP: London is the latest in a series of innovative pop-ups, including a former wharf in Copenhagen and an abandoned shipping warehouse in New York....

Bad Scorpions Running Wild

10/10/2018

Researchers have documented 104 species of scorpion worldwide, updating the global record of medically significant scorpions, or those whose venom could be alternately gravely harmful or beneficial....

“I Spend a Lot of Time Looking at People’s Depressing Dinners”

09/10/2018

New London gallery Elephant West will open on 10 November with Dipping Sauce, British photographer Maisie Cousins largest show to date....

Science and Aesthetics

08/10/2018

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Science, of course, is immensely important; perhaps even the patterns made by diffraction are important too; even if only as a bi-product of some scientific goings-on....

Art on the Streets Exhibition

05/10/2018

The posters invite the viewer to consider the role that visual activism can play in our everyday experience, highlighting the power of images to challenge and empower....

Find The Fish

03/10/2018

For the first time, locations on the human genome have been identified that can explain differences in meaning in life between individuals. ...

Arts Organisations Must Be Allowed To Die

02/10/2018

A new report on resilience in the arts encourages a shift in thinking from individual sustainability to the health of a sector as a whole....

Paris Pop-up Theatre To Be Run By Refugees

28/09/2018

The theatre will be run by an ensemble called La Troupe, consisting of eight core members and other participants, all of whom are refugees....

Invasive Snakes Hitchhiking With US Military

26/09/2018

A research team has been studying why a type of cat-eyed snake has been so effective at devastating native bird populations on the island of Guam....

Swedish Museums Call For Nazi Loot Assistance

25/09/2018

Museums are calling on the government to create an independent panel to issue recommendations on claims for art that was lost due to persecution by the Nazis. ...