
Sea of selfies – social media's monoculture threat
11 August 2014
Social media's just fun, right? No, says a new art exhibition: tweets and selfies are creating monoculture, an online equivalent to crops like rape seed

11 August 2014
Social media's just fun, right? No, says a new art exhibition: tweets and selfies are creating monoculture, an online equivalent to crops like rape seed

25 July 2014
Governments and big businesses want information to be free, but how will it work? A Berlin festival last week cast a friendly but critical eye over the idea

6 December 2013
A collaborative art website launched by artists Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson lets people draw on the surface of a moon-like orb – with surprising results

16 October 2013
New books by Anjan Chatterjee and Arthur Shimamura tackle neuroaesthetics, the search for links between brain activity and preferences for art

2 October 2013
A new exhibition in New York showcases 100 important urban trends identified by a pop-up laboratory that visited New York, Berlin and Mumbai

2 August 2013
Quantum chemistry shows you the dancing atoms you share the world with

17 July 2013
Something for the weekend? Sharpen your mind on the best recently released books

14 June 2013
Variety is the spice of life at a summer festival of edible plants at Kew Gardens, London: it combines interactive art with the serious matter of food security