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Preview 21st century heads of Charles Darwin fill busts with ant colonies and DNA dataWhen a bust of Charles Darwin moved to the Grant Museum of Zoology's new home in 2011, it left an empty plinth. A head-sculpting competition will redress the balance.03 February 2014 -
News 520 million-year-old swivel-eyed predator carried earliest cardiovascular system, say expertsA fossil found in China, related to modern insects, spiders, lobsters and millipedes, has one of the earliest blood vessel systems in a living animal, say Natural History Museum scientists.08 April 2014 -
News A marvellous menagerie as National Museum Wales opens new gallery The Wolf InsideChickens, pigs, goats and complete horse and cow skeletons feature in the Cardiff museum's new gallery, which also draws close comparisons between wolves and dogs.10 October 2012 -
News Abstract, Digital, Real or Imagined?Landscape is the theme of a new exhibition of digital photography by Andrew Langford at Nottingham Castle Museum.12 June 2001 -
Review Animal magnetism: Sexual Nature bounds through daring Natural History Museum showLaura Burgess checks out mollusc love dart foreplay in the Natural History Museum's compellingly playful new show.10 February 2011 -
C24 Feature Appeasing ethical karma: A look at the new home of the Grant Museum of ZoologyThree weeks after the collection moved into a new home at University College London, curator Mark Carnall tells us about conscientious interactivity, iPads and safeguarding the Grant Museum's unique charm.05 April 2011 -
News Archaeologists use ancient teeth to find evidence that humans drank milk 5,000 years agoExperts in York have carried out "exciting" tests to find out when and why people drank milk thousands of years ago, admitting the discovery of whey protein on human dental calculus seemed "too good to be true".25 December 2014 -
C24 Feature Artist's Statement: Helen Wilson-Roe on Henrietta Lacks' story at the Science MuseumHaving created a 3D work based on a heartbreaking tale, the artist explains why a trip to meet a family in America resulted in "a different way" of producing her work.15 November 2013 -
Event: Exhibition (permanent) County: Greater London Being HumanBeing Human explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. It reflects our hopes and fears about new forms of medical knowledge, and our changing relationships with ourselves, each other and the world.Wellcome Collection | London | 5 September 2019 — 31 December 2030 -
News Benedict Cumberbatch revealed as Richard III's second cousin as actor prepares to read at reinterment ceremonyAhead of the cathedral ceremony, genealogists have produced a family tree which shows the Oscar nominee is the last Plantagenet king's Richard 16 times removed second cousin.25 March 2015 -
Preview Briony Marshall creates Life Forming DNA sculpture in residency at Pangolin LondonMarking the 60th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, a scientist-turned-sculptor has created a two-metre high artwork as part of an artist-in-residence programme.07 June 2013 -
Heritage site: Garden, parklands or rural site County: Cambridgeshire Cambridge University Botanic Garden Cambridge -
News Charles Darwin notebooks from first attempt at theory of evolution released onlineResearchers at Cambridge University Library say thousands of images from Charles Darwin's earliest works constitute a "surviving seedbed" of On the Origin of Species.25 November 2014 -
Review Contemporary Expressions - artists respond to Darwin at the Natural History MuseumA collection of contemporary artists have united to produce an exhibition based on one of Charles Darwin's books, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Alice Burton explores the Natural History Museum's latest show.21 July 2009 -
News Darwin At Downe In Bromley Nominated For World Heritage SiteDarwin's former home in the London Borough of Bromley has been put forward for UNESCO World Heritage status, which would lend it ongoing protection and recognition.13 January 2006 -
Review Extinction: Not the end of the World? asks Natural History MuseumA Great Auk, a Dodo and an Irish Elk are part of the Natural History Museum's new display. And one of the tiniest specimens on show proves it's not all doom and gloom.08 February 2013 -
News Forensic reconstruction of Richard III's head to appear at Yorkshire Museum this summerIn what may be the most accurate representation of the King yet, a head based on scans carried out by Leicester Royal Infirmary will form a cranial summer centrepiece in York.02 May 2013 -
Preview German anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens' preserved humans to visit NewcastleFusing art, science and culture, the exhibition of plastinated bodies visits Life after being seen by more than 38 million visitors in cities across the world.15 April 2014 -
News Head of Richard III reconstructed in four-hour operation based on DNA test resultsProfessor Caroline Wilkinson has reconstructed the head of Richard III, reflecting the blond hair and blue eyes of the king based on DNA evidence from his remains.10 March 2015 -
News Herpes started in chimpanzees and Neanderthals swapped infections with early humans, say scientistsNeanderthals and modern humans could have caught genital herpes and stomach ulcer-causing bacteria from each other, say anthropologists who believe the infectious diseases were carried out of Africa around 52,000 years ago.11 April 2016
