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O A page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, has been identified by a CNRS researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.

Rachel Moss , Trinity College Dublin Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells - an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin - was "the most purely Irish thing we have".

Our researchers are helping young people discover the overlooked stories of Black British communities through art, history and literature.

When people watch a live contemporary dance performance, their brainwaves sync up, signalling shared focus and attention, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. That synchrony dropped when the same performance was viewed alone on video, report the authors of the new iScience paper. Dr Guido Orgs (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), a neuroscientist and dancer who was the senior author of the paper, said: "We wanted to explore what makes live performance feel so different from watching a recording.

Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent. Even when using tools like NightShade, artists are still at risk of their work being used for training AI models without their consent Hanna Foerster So say a team of researchers who have uncovered significant weaknesses in two of the art protection tools most used by artists to safeguard their work.