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Life

Eye of the shoal: Inside the surprising world of fish

Why do some fish sport beautiful colours? Can they feel pain? What’s special about lanternfish? The piscine world is awash with surprises, reveals a new book

Culture

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Earth

Globetrotting film sends scientists on "relay race" of inquiry

Culture

Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

Life

Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

Culture

Remains

Humans

The clock-maker who helped fashion art from science

Culture

London's Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room

Humans

London's Horniman Museum has squeezed a world into a room

Culture

CERN-inspired artwork HALO will make the invisible, visible

Technology

CERN-inspired artwork HALO will make the invisible, visible

Culture

Zhang Yanzi's Wishing Capsules

Health

Art that brings meaning to medicine

Culture

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Humans

The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

Culture

M. C. Escher, Day and Night (1938)

Humans

Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths

Culture

Nine curious colours that shaped the history of art

Humans

Nine curious colours that shaped the history of art

From purple sea snail milk to arsenic green and a yellow made from urine, we’ve gone to bizarre lengths in our millennia-long quest to create the most vibrant shades

Features

Physics

What Is Real? A tale of how big egos hijacked quantum physics

Culture

Life

Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures

Culture

Humans

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts

Regulars

Technology

Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

Culture