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

Landmark Trust's restoration finds that oak timber used to build Welsh house was felled in the winters of 1418-19 and 1420-21

Many World Heritage Sites around the Mediterranean are at grave risk from sea-level rise by 2100, report says

Supported by prominent figures in its day, the little known movement is at last being rescued from obscurity

New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester

Free venue joins a growing global network of Science Gallery spaces

Ahead of his retrospective at Washington, DC's Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist discusses his interest in the social and political implications of technologies, including mass surveillance systems and artificial intelligence

Artist's donated installation pays tribute to "a small victory for science"

Aguttes sold the fossil to an anonymous buyer, who may name the new species, despite protests from paleontologists

They are increasingly sounding the alarm on global warming, through new works and collaborations with scientists

While artists and museums embrace futuristic tools, legal experts point to a number of pitfalls with cutting-edge work

Darkroom installation will use data collected at the particle physics centre

The Bay Area artist and his team build massive machines that act in dangerous performances—and they are opening their first gallery show in New York

New York institutions are accessing equipment and expertise thanks to $2m, six-year grant

The astronaut Muhammed Faris was hailed a national hero in 1987 after accompanying a Soviet crew on a trip to the Mir space station

Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work

As the countdown to London's Cosmonauts show begins, we speak to the daughter of the rocket scientist who blasted Yuri Gagarin into space

Bacteria removed from Villa of the Mysteries frieze during restoration

Researchers to use imaging technology to identify invisible-to-the-eye artefacts