The move has been welcomed by heritage bodies, but scientists—including Curie's great-grandson—support the construction of a new research centre on the site

Scientists discovered extra seam during Operation Night Watch conservation project at the Rijksmuseum

The winning artist, Antoine Bertin, will develop "The Bat Cloud" during a two-month residency in the Mayan jungle

A new report reveals that humans were building with wood 476,000 years ago, upending previous beliefs about our ancestors

The revealing handwritten memoirs of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to receive payment from King George III for her interstellar discoveries, has been acquired by the museum that was once her home

On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master

The British installation artist sat down with scientist Carlo Rovelli to discover their two disciplines have more in common than one might think

The x-ray will be displayed in a lightbox in the forthcoming exhibition A Taste for Impressionism at National Galleries of Scotland

An expedition team has located the famed shipwreck in what has been described as a "milestone in polar history"

The virtual drawing marathon takes place 23 October on the South South platform

Artist commissions, expert discussions and film premieres will take place in the city, starting and ending with a pair of symposia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Radiocarbon dating of human bones and teeth in Peruvian ruins indicate that the Inca first lived at the citadel around 1420, not after 1440

Team using sonar technology have found evidence of structures and settlements on the seafloor

Scientists will study how Soviet-era household objects "made to last 30 or 40 years" can be preserved

Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows

The material, which reflects 98% of light, will have significant use in cooling buildings and fighting climate change

The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History

Created during quarantine, the artist’s Bloom series is about the fragility of life, and how computer systems interpret the complexity of humanity

As the coronavirus forces us to endure an unprecedented time of distant social contact, art can remind us, assure us, of our interconnectedness

Mauritshuis museum's detailed technical examination uncovers new findings on the Dutch artist's brushwork, pigments and technique

This extensive volume explores the relationship between the German writer's visual imagination and his fascination with natural science

This exhibition catalogue shows European technological discoveries from the 16th to the 19th century

From the 17th to the end of the 19th century natural history depended on illustrations for clarification

A new report by Icomos details how the science/culture divide is stopping world heritage coming to the aid of climate change and urges speedy action

Even when the codex became ubiquitous, scrolls held a special place for the written word

Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers

A new publication brings together the Scottish surgeon's art collection for the first time in many years

After its US premier at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the visually stunning documentary heads to Berlin