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Our Time On Earth at Barbican, London

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Our Time on Earth: Can creativity tackle the climate emergency?

A new exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, entitled Our Time on Earth, aims to connect visitors with the natural world and create a sense of belonging

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Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany

Life

Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany

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Journey to Infinity review: M. C. Escher's art of the impossible

Journey to Infinity review: M. C. Escher's art of the impossible

Culture

Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing human history

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Environment

Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art

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Graffiti can now be removed in minutes without damaging underlying art

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What are NFTs?

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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

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Australia's oldest known rock art is a 17,000-year-old kangaroo

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Don't Miss: Netflix's Tribes of Europa, a German near-future sci-fi

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Don't Miss: Netflix's Tribes of Europa, a German near-future sci-fi

Culture

How the pandemic is revolutionising art galleries and museums

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How the pandemic is revolutionising art galleries and museums

What have covid-19 closures done to art galleries and museums? From virtual tours of mothballed shows to advanced tech like lidar, they are finding new, more personal ways to wow audiences

Culture

Technology

AI art critic can predict which emotions a painting will evoke

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Robot swarms guided by human artists could paint colourful pictures

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Hope Frozen review: The hard ethics of cryogenically freezing a child

Culture

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Ancient mammoth tusk found in Siberia is engraved with fighting camels

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