Synergy explores, among other things, histories of science, art and theories of knowledge ; the human body through computational viruses ; the ecology of the information environment ;  art, metaphysics and dreams ; human vision ; black holes, string theory and the universe.

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Stephen Nowlin is a Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and writer whose practice is inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. In Beauty Found (Where it Wasn’t Meant to Be), he discusses generative and other science-informed artmaking.

Taney Roniger is a visual artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Since the late 90s she has been exploring the relationship between art, science, and the spirituality of immanence in both her work as an artist and in numerous essays and symposia. ‘Pilgrimage to Myyrmaki – The Silent Music of Things’ recounts her visit to a church in Finland and her recent artworks it inspired.

Joseph Nechvatal’s contemporary art practice engages in the fragile wedding of image production and image resistance. Through his version of an art-of-noise, he brings a subversive reading to the human body through computational viruses, articulating concerns regarding safety, identity and objectivity. He is interviewed by New York–based artist, Chris Dorland.

As an artist, planner/designer and eco-cultural activist, Richard Lowenberg has dedicated his creative life to investigations, understandings and artful realization of works presenting and collaboratively setting examples for ‘an ecology of the information environment’, and resulting opportunities for development of a culturally and ecologically rooted society. He discusses his work in Info/Eco – The Nature of Information.

Alan MacDonald was a graphic designer and illustrator for 40 years.
“As a metaphysical artist I am concerned with a three-way comparison between: metaphysics (science of subject / why), Science of object (how), and information technology, the most important metaphor we have for the nature of consciousness.” He discusses his ideas and work in Three In One Nature of Consciousness & Dream Sequence.

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Joël Chevrier: Can contemporary sculptor Antony Gormley be seen as a successor of Auguste Rodin and Jean‑Baptiste Pigalle?

Marika Taylor – String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics.

Subir Sarkar: The universe may be lopsided – new research.

Henry Taylor – Human vision: what we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousness.

Enrique Gaztanaga: Could dark matter be made of black holes from a different universe?

Plus, a feature on Gayle Chong Kwan’s The Great Instauration, in which she interrogated the history of the scientific canon with a major installation in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland for Edinburgh Science Festival.

Correspondences explores, among other things, art and the evolution of consciousness ; artificial intelligence and humanism ; mathematics ; emotion and embodiment ; the cultural and ecological awareness of trees ; human-nature symbiogenesis ; and the psychology of conversation.

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In Humanism after the Algorithm, David Falls examines how artificial intelligence challenges core humanist commitments to reason, moral responsibility, and human judgment.

Alexander Nathan introduces a visual–operational framework that distinguishes body-led and mind-led domains as coupled operating systems governed by different rules for safety, security, attention, and boundary behavior in The Architecture of Misalignment: Visualizing Domain Coordination in Embodied Experience.

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ art has many incarnations including Haida manga, sculpture, painting, mixed media, ceramics or long murals made on Japanese paper. In this interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, he discusses his ideas and work in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas-Best to Love Bugs.

In Tree Veneration in the Time of the Anthropocene: Why Trees Matter and Why a Cultural Response Matters Too, Louise Fowler-Smith introduces the Tree Veneration Society (TVS), an interdisciplinary charity of eco-artists and scientists dedicated to fostering cultural and ecological awareness of trees.

Primarily a visual artist, Paul Forte also writes essays and poetry. In this article he explores Reflections on the Evolution of Consciousness as well as showing some of his own artwork.

Sabahat Fida is a lecturer in Zoology with the Higher Education Department in Kashmir. With academic training spanning in both the sciences (MSc Zoology) and the humanities (MA Philosophy), her work seeks to bridge the realms of science, metaphysics, religion, and philosophy. From curvature to creation: what pi really measures explores the philosophical implications of the mathematical constant π.

Florian Coulmas is Professor emeritus of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies at Duisburg-Essen University. He discusses the dying art of letter writing on paper in No One Writes to the Colonel.

In As above, so below: ‘Organic Worlds’ celebrates human-nature symbiogenesis, Anika Sultana reviews the exhibition, ‘Organic Worlds: Symbiogenesis in Art’, curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova at the SP/N Gallery at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Luke Gilfedder, a British author and modernist scholar, reviews Gary Lachman’s new memoir, ‘Touched by the Presence: From Blondie’s Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult’. ‘Touched by the Presence’ follows Lachman’s journey from founding member of Blondie to prolific writer on consciousness, counterculture, and the Western esoteric tradition.

Plus, there are features on the exhibitions Gisela Colón: Radiant Earth and Rutherford Chang: Hundreds and Thousands.

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Peter Coppola: Major theories of consciousness may have been focusing on the wrong part of the brain.

Ruth Corps: How conversation works – and why people with hearing loss rely more on their powers of prediction.

Cosmos and Visions of Light explores, among other things, art and cosmological phenomena ; light and pattern ; geometrical shapes and mathematical laws ; information and radio astronomy ; topology and wormholes ; colour and evolution.

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Ione Parkin RWA is an abstract painter, co-lead artist on the Creativity and Curiosity project and an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. She is the curator of the exhibition ‘Cosmos: the art of observing Space’ currently showing at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, UK. She discusses her work and the exhibition in Cosmological Perspectives.

Chris Wood is a UK based artist with a career spanning over 25 years. Known for her signature light-responsive artworks and transformative installations, Wood has garnered global acclaim, culminating in the establishment of the Chris Wood Light Studio. She shows some of her work in Visions of Light.

Primarily working with wood, Ben Rowe creates intriguing objects that draw the viewer into fascinating new worlds. Using geometrical shapes and mathematical laws applied in science and nature, he plays with notions of scale. He discusses his work in A Geometric Universe.

Louise Beer is an artist and curator. She uses installation, moving image, photography, writing, participatory works and sound to explore humanity’s evolving understanding of Earth’s environments and the cosmos. She discusses her work in Earth, A Cosmic Spectacle.

Susan Eyre is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video, installation and print processes, creating work to encourage a sense of wonder in the everyday and an awareness of an entangled universe. She explores cosmological and geological phenomena with a particular fascination for cosmic rays and magnetic fields. She discusses her work in Revealing the Unseen.

Geraldine Cox’s work is about finding resonant ways to express hidden aspects of nature and the journey of discovery. This research has taken her to the heart of the atom, the beginnings of the Universe and the essence of light. She discusses her work in Droplets of Cosmic Light.

Steven Giovinco is a New York-based photographer. His night photographs at the edge of inhabited places trace evidence of epic but subtle change. Informed by the environment, history, and culture, his most recent work documents the extremely remote arctic Greenland with the goal of visualizing transformation since climate-related statistics can be difficult to grasp. He shows some of his work in Polar Light.

Siobhan McDonald’s multifaceted exhibition PASSAGE explores Dublin’s deep history as a mutable landscape shaped by water, cosmology, and human intervention. Through film, sound, painting, and sculpture, the exhibition investigates how the city’s shifting ground holds memory and resilience.

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Florian Neukart: Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter

Csanád Horváth & Natasha Hurley-Walker: Puzzling slow radio pulses are coming from space. A new study could finally explain them

John Etnyre: What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it

Enrique Gaztanaga: Wormholes may not exist – we’ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe

Jonathan Goldenberg: Why did life evolve to be so colourful? Research is starting to give us some answers

Perceiving Reality explores, among other things, AI and film ;  entropy, equilibrium, and environmental change ; the future of AI therapy; art and anatomy embroideries ; perception and reality ; chaos and order in evolutionary biology and the visual arts ; AI and consciousness; and objective colour.

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Lia Pas is a multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring body and states of being. She was an active composer/performer and poet/librettist until 2015 when she became disabled with ME/CFS. Since then her work has focused on fibre arts and writing with some small forays back into music. Her anatomy embroideries are shown in The Symptomatology Series.

Constant, an AI film by Danny Ratcliff, follows Bailee from childhood through motherhood, chronicling her lifelong relationship with an AI companion. Beginning with Bailee’s birth in 2023. The narrative explores how trust with artificial intelligence, established early and nurtured over time, can become a cornerstone relationship.

In Do We Need to Rethink Everything? Alethea Black explores the mechanics of perception and the nature of reality.

In Perceiving Reality: The Enthalpy of Existence, Anna Hamilton traces a decade long investigation by British artist Alexander James Hamilton into the behaviour of light, matter, and perception as thermodynamic systems.

Cleandra Waldron, a counselling psychologist, shares the troubling patterns emerging with clients in her therapy room in The Future of AI Therapy: Promise, Peril, and Urgency,  examining the real-world implications of AI therapy through the lens of clinical practice.

In Chaos and Order as Design Elements in Evolutionary Biology and the Visual Arts: A Case Study of Human–Robot Artistic Collaboration, Rudolf Friedrich Bliem investigates the interplay of chaos and order in evolutionary biology, cell biology and the visual arts, arguing that creativity in both natural and artistic systems arises from a productive tension between these two principles.

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. In We Contain Multitudes he shows some his recent work.

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Adriana Alcaraz-Sanchez: Can you be aware of nothing? The rare sleep experience scientists are trying to understand.

Arryn Robbins: AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works − here’s why they fool you and how to spot them.

Steve Taylor: How higher states of consciousness can forever change your perception of reality.

David Cornell: The hardest part of creating conscious AI might be convincing ourselves it’s real.

Elay Shech & Michael Watkins: Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see.

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Sam Shoemaker: Mushroom Boat, an exhibition at Fulcrum Arts showing a collection of works developed in relation to the artist’s August 2025 crossing of the Catalina Channel in a kayak made of mushroom mycelium.

Reflecting explores, among other things, art and memory; AI, identity and religion; psychedelics, metaphysics and psychiatry; the spiral of time; digital and physical worlds; philosophy and imagining the future.

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In 1958, talented and fearless and eighteen years old, Liliane Lijn left her family home and moved to Paris alone to become an artist Based on personal diaries from the time, Liquid Reflections is her memoir of these years of experiment and adventure. A revelatory account of a singular coming of age: a glittering portrait of the artist as a young woman. In this interview with Richard Bright, she discusses Liquid Reflections, revealing her experiences in an era when sexism was the norm.

Drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and cultural reflection, David Falls, in God’s AI Reckoning: The Final Revelation, asks: when machines illuminate what was once unknowable, does divinity fade… or evolve?

Sabahat Fida’s work sits at the crossroads of science, religion, and metaphysics, often integrating theology with reflections from nature. Divine proportions : The ontology of justice explores justice as a divine and ontological principle—rooted in Shia theology, classical philosophy, and natural analogies.

Alexander Talby explores Artificial Intelligence, memory and identity in Grabbing the Tiger by The Tail: Holding On For Dear Life to The Part of Myself that AI Will Never Replace.

In A Psychedelic Mind: Metaphysics and Psychiatry, Anindita Adhikari examines whether “mind altering” substances transcend the experiences of consciousness or are they mere chemicals that release or inhibit the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.

Time as Spiral: The Fibonacci Architecture of Reality deepens the theoretical foundation laid in the first installment by connecting the spiral model of time to the Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio, revealing recurring mathematical and biological patterns that mirror our proposed cognitive and cosmic spiral framework. The article was written by Domenico Meschino in collaboration with Omni Intelligence AI.

In Beyond the “Fake”: Martyna Marciniak’s Artwork, Anatomy of Non-Fact, Explores Synthetic Images, Joël Chevrier discusses artist Martyna Marciniak’s work, ‘Anatomy of Non-Fact’, which uses images moving from optical images (photography as it comes out XIX century) to non-optical images or synthetic images as generated by AI.

NastPlas are an international artistic duo formed by Fran R. Learte and Natalia Molinos. In HumanNature they explore the relationship between humans and the natural environment by merging advanced technology with handcrafted processes.

Through the lens of a stem cell clinic in the year 2135, In Petri Dish We Sing envisions a world where embryonic stem cells (ESCs) become a raw, sustainable material that forms the very fabric of the city’s infrastructure. Inspired by MIT’s research on the Lemon Skin Chair and Yarli Allison’s exploration of the healthcare system and gender health gaps, the film envisions a society reconstructed from this regenerative substance, one that carries the traces of cellular memory.

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Zoë Fowler & Brendan Bo O’Connor: Collaboratively imagining the future can bring people closer together in the present.

Walter Veit & Heather Browning: What’s it like being a raven or a crow?

Being Human with Artificial Intelligence 3 explores, among other things, the brain and creativity; AI, ethics and consciousness; the spiral of time; art and AI; naturopathy, psychological self-perception and Indian cultural rituals; AI and language; and humanoid robots.

Contributions include –

Anna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor and Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Neuroscience of Creativity and the editor of the multidisciplinary volume The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination. In this interview she discusses her latest book, The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths.

In The Ethical Crossroads of AI Consciousness: Are We Ready for Sentient Machines?, David Falls explores the ethical, scientific, and philosophical implications of AI consciousness, analyzing whether artificial intelligence could ever develop self-awareness and what that would mean for society.

Kayla Block is a mixed media artist and creative technologist whose work lives at the intersection of memory, machine, and material. My Hands, The Machine’s Mind: Giving Up Artistic Agency explores a human-AI art collaboration in which the artist relinquished creative agency to ChatGPT.

The Inward Spiral of Time: Remembering Ourselves Back to the Source, by Domenico Meschino in collaboration with Omni Intelligence AI, a next-generation cognitive model for scientific reflection and research, presents a groundbreaking model that challenges the traditional view of time as linear.

Dr. Nita Sharma Das is a Naturopathy expert, educator, award-winning author, and skincare formulator. In The Skin as a Living Canvas: Aging, Identity, and the Conscious Body she explores the skin as a living interface where biology, consciousness, culture, and identity converge.

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Florian Coulmas: The most-viewed painting in the world – a myth?

Veena D. Dwivedi: A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to ‘understand’ language

Gordon A. Gow: 6 ways AI can partner with us in creative inquiry, inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan

Lucy Gill-Simmen: Where did the wonder go – and can AI help us find it?

Paula Murphy: What 70 years of AI on film can tell us about the human relationship with artificial intelligence

Daniel Zhou Hao: AI could be the breakthrough that allows humanoid robots to jump from science fiction to reality

Connections and Convergence explores, among other things, space and time in sculpture, art and science collaborations, complex systems and biology, archaeology and dreaming, fractals and sacred geometry.

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The material of Ludwika Ogorzelec’s sculptures is space itself, and the line of wood, metal or glass is only the contour for the “crystals of space”. Her works are usually created in reference to the context of the cultures and places in which they are presented, most often in situ (in open space, often in architecturally shaped surroundings, in the interiors of exhibition halls of museums and galleries). In Shape in Time, an interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, she discusses her ideas and work.

Siobhán McDonald is an Irish artist based in Dublin. In a practice that emphasizes field work and collaboration she works with natural materials, withdrawing them from their cycles of generation, growth and decay. In Floating Body she explores Dublin Port as a gateway of exchange—reimagined as a porous space of interspecies cohabitation.

Sohrab Crews’ experience of a range of different geographical and cultural contexts has had a strong bearing on his work, as has his significant interest in post-war European avant-garde art, American painting and sculpture, and mixed-media practices of all kinds. His own work manifests the recurrent themes of order and control, structure, colour and expressive intensity, notably through his ongoing experimentation with a wide range of ideas, mediums and techniques. Fragments Aligned shows his recent exhibition.

Sabahat Fida is a lecturer in Zoology with the Higher Education Department in Kashmir. With academic training spanning in both the sciences (MSc Zoology) and the humanities (MA Philosophy), her work seeks to bridge the realms of science, metaphysics, religion, and philosophy.

Gayle Chong Kwan is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and academic whose work is exhibited internationally in galleries and the public realm. Her large-scale photographic works, immersive installations, and sensory ritual events are at the intersection of historical and archival research and fine art practice, and position the viewer as one element in a cosmology of the political, social and ecological. She has created a new installation work, ‘Oneiric Archaeologies’, in VR game design, sound, tactile wearable sculptures, and social dreaming to explore the collective re-shaping, re-use, and understanding of Avebury Neolithic site through dreaming.

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Chris Impey: Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve

Mitchell Newberry: Mathematics of scale: Big, small and everything in between

Polina Vytnova: Mandelbrot’s fractals are not only gorgeous – they taught mathematicians how to model the real world

Chris Curran: Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the next generation of scientists young and old

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A feature on the Arts MSU Power Up Artist-in-Residence program at Michigan State University and The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).

Matter and Time II explores, among other things, the reality of constant change, the periodic table, drawing and particle physics, environmental sculpture and natural forms, cosmology and timescales, and generative AI artworks.

Contributions include –

Lucinda Burgess’s background in painting, landscape design and oriental philosophy has led to a fascination with the raw elemental qualities of materials and inform a sculptural practice that accentuates the reality of constant change, undermining the idea of a fixed thing, object, entity or identity. She discusses her work in A constant state of flux.

During a residency at the University of Birmingham working with award winning particle physicist Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos in 2017 artist Ian Andrews made transformational changes to his practice creating the project The Sketchbook and the Collider which seeks to establish equivalents between the interaction of fundamental particles and the language of drawing.

Taney Roniger is a visual artist, writer, and educator based in New York. Since the late 90s she has been exploring the relationship between art, science, and the spirituality of immanence in both her work as an artist and in numerous essays and symposia. In Mendelevium Mon Amour: What I Learned from Memorizing the Periodic Table she describes her process over time.

Chris Booth is a sculptor who works closely with the land, earth forms, and indigenous peoples of the region(s) where he creates his monumental sculptural art works. His way of working emphasizes communication and exchange between indigenous and colonial cultures and the creation of meaningful environmental art works. In an interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, he discusses his ideas and work.

Anna Franklin is a British self-taught visual artist, classically trained pianist, and music teacher. Her art is nature inspired with a focus on climate awareness, where she blends traditional art and craft techniques. She discusses her work and ideas in The beauty of natural forms.

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Andreea Font: ‘Dark stars’: dark matter may form exploding stars – and observing the damage could help reveal what it’s made of.

Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria: How the science of tiny timescales could speed up computers and improve solar cell technology.

Sandro Tacchella: The earliest galaxies formed amazingly fast after the Big Bang. Do they break the universe or change its age?

Anthony Downey: If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art.

And, a feature on the book The Art-Science Symbiosis by Marcelo Velasco and Ignacio Nieto.

(Transient) Bodies explores, among other things, interspecies communication between man and animal, environmental art, temporality and transience, the human body and BioArt, cosmology, human evolution, and sculptures with scientific insights into the nature of reality.

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Tessa Campbell Fraser is a British painter and sculptor. She is one of the UK’s leading animal artists. Her exhibition, Whales- a Deeper Dialogue seeks to unravel the interspecies communication between man and animal that is currently a hot topic in scientific research.

Julian Voss-Andreae is widely known for his striking large-scale public and private commissions often blending figurative sculpture with scientific insights into the nature of reality.  He shows some of his work in Transient Bodies.

Pascale Pollier’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation, and is steeped in solid scientific research and findings. In Visceral Landscapes she discusses her latest work.

NILS-UDO is a German artist from Bavaria who has been creating environmental art since the 1960s when he moved away from painting and the studio and began to work with, and in, nature. In NILS_UDO: Towards Nature, he discusses his ideas and work in an interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande.

Chantal Pollier is a visual artist who prefers to work with stone. (and in wax, glass, drawings, and photography) All her work holds references to temporality and transience. She discusses her work in A Vulnerable Border.

Elaine Whittaker is a Canadian visual artist working at the intersection of art, science, medicine, and ecology.  Murky Bodies is a series of four installations speculating on the entangled ways in which humans, plants, animals and microorganisms emerge and co-exist in a world confronting a warming climate, rising seas, intensified water cycles and extreme storms.

Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 40 years. In Forming, he shows some of his latest work that explores flow and transience.

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Neil Turok – ‘Cosmic inflation’: did the early cosmos balloon in size? A mirror universe going backwards in time may be a simpler explanation.

John Gowlett: The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes via Lucy to us.

Andreea Font: Cosmology is at a tipping point – we may be on the verge of discovering new physics.

Owen Jones: Why do humans deteriorate with age? It’s a biological puzzle.

Communicating explores, among other things, animal and plant communication, the science of animal translation and talking to animals, intuition, architectural structures of communication, art and cosmology, bioluminescence, space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, neurotechnology and ‘mind reading’.

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Tom Mustill is a biologist turned filmmaker and writer. His award-winning films include many collaborations with Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough. In Talking to animals he discusses his latest book How to Speak Whale: a Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication.

Taney Roniger is a visual artist, writer, and educator. Since the late 90s she has been exploring the relationship between art, science, and the spirituality of immanence. In Intuition’s Truth she explores a materialist take on intuition.

Through drawing and printmaking Ian Chamberlain reinterprets man-made structures as monuments in the landscape. He shows and discusses his work on telecommunication in Structures of Communication.

Stephen Nowlin is an artist, curator, and writer whose practice is inspired by science, the histories of science and art, and theories of knowledge. His work employs the use of digital tools, photography, and scanning technology, resulting in small and large-scale limited edition archival pigment prints. In this article he discusses his work of the last few years which has developed along three ongoing series: This Land’, ‘Marginalia’, and ‘Chronicles of Fallacy’

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Katie Field: Do mushrooms really use language to talk to each other? A fungi expert investigates.

Danielle DeLeo & Andrea Quattrini: From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it.

Parker Crutchfield: In a future with more ‘mind reading,’ thanks to neurotech, we may need to rethink freedom of thought.

Sven Batke: The silent conversations of plants.

Owen Johnson: Seti – how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies.

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Garry Kennard: The Encounters Trilogy.

A review by Richard Bright of the Science Gallery London’s new exhibition and events programme Vital Signs: another world is possible