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Erland Cooper interview: The composer who melts hearts with icy music

Research into the acoustics of Svalbard's glaciers and caves is at the heart of Orkney composer Erland Cooper's latest works

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Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red

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RGAJ63 Caveman painting in a cave

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How archaeologists can decide if prehistoric artefacts count as art

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Artist's tulip photos capture transience of life

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Artist's tulip photos capture transience of life

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The Makapansgat pebble is seen on display as part of the exhibition

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The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species

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MosaiQ's generated images

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Quantum AI image generator is no match for ones on ordinary computers

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Painting at the top of Mont Blanc

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Engineer Jason Lyon poses as he views Loo Garden, a temporary subterranean garden designed to represent a future healthier River Thames, in a section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel - commonly known as the 'Super Sewer' - a 25 kilometre tunnel being built across London under and along the River Thames to deal with combined sewer overflows currently polluting the river, in London, Britain, June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC22T1ANLLXT

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See the garden blooming in a 'super sewer' deep below London

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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Scans of Girl with a Pearl Earring reveal painting's hidden secrets

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient people in the region expressed their creativity, including sculpted figurines, a communal drum and perhaps a previously unrecognised form of writing

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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef

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Underwater writing technique lets you draw patterns in liquids

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Famed abstract artists capture nature as you’ve never seen it before

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Famous Benin Bronzes from West Africa used metal sourced in Germany

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