LATEST CULTURELAB
Meeting the human faces of the internet's dark places
REVIEW: 19:00 18 August 2014
Jamie Bartlett's encounters with the characters behind subversive currencies and online erotica make fascinating reading, but The Dark Net is really about us
Sea of selfies – social media's monoculture threat
REVIEW: 17:40 11 August 2014
Social media's just fun, right? No, says a new art exhibition: tweets and selfies are creating monoculture, an online equivalent to crops like rape seed
Human harp makes music by playing the Brooklyn Bridge
PICTURE OF THE DAY: 16:45 11 August 2014
A body suit can transform the vibrations of architectural structures into works of art
The surprising power of the unseen
REVIEW: 09:00 11 August 2014
Primitive notions about hidden beings and forces have helped shaped science, argues Philip Ball in his book Invisible: The dangerous allure of the unseen
Festival shows the promises and perils of open data
REVIEW: 18:00 06 August 2014
Governments and big businesses want information to be free, but how will it work? A Berlin festival last week cast a friendly but critical eye over the idea
A globetrotting, water-saving tour of sewage gardens
REVIEW: 19:00 04 August 2014
Would you dine in an artificial wetland laced with human waste? In The Wastewater Gardener, Marc Nelson makes an inspiring case for a new ecology of water
Psychedelic cells are fruit of Alan Turing's equations
APERTURE: 12:00 29 July 2014
It looks like living cells – but this image evolved in a computer following an algorithm based on Alan Turing's ideas about the patterns on animals' bodies
How Shakespeare's intensity may help people with autism
REVIEW: 08:00 29 July 2014
A special retelling of The Tempest shows how people with autism may be able to tap into the rhythmic heart of Shakespeare's plays
A parent's guide to reading a baby's mind
REVIEW: 19:00 28 July 2014
The Psychology of Babies by Lynne Murray is a fascinating insight into infant minds – but don't be surprised if it turns you into a worried armchair expert
Festival shows the promises and perils of open data
REVIEW: 19:30 25 July 2014
Governments and big businesses want information to be free, but how will it work? A Berlin festival last week cast a friendly but critical eye over the idea
Urban growth: bio-bricks offer a whiff of the future
REVIEW: 18:00 25 July 2014
The latest addition to the New York skyline is more than a smelly oddity: bricks made from corn stalks and mushrooms could be used to build disaster relief shelters
Art by algorithm: Computer evolves new artworks
NEWS: 19:30 24 July 2014
A computer algorithm that modifies images by mimicking the rules of natural selection can work with people to evolve novel works of art
When art changes the rules for science
REVIEW: 15:03 24 July 2014
A new exhibition, Automatic Art, explores how art that was built on logical and mathematical rules ended up giving science new ways of seeing the world
A bird in the hand: The tale of one woman and her hawk
REVIEW: 19:00 22 July 2014
This pulse-quickening story of a woman's obsession with training a female goshawk makes H is for Hawk a modern classic in a nature-writing renaissance
Beyond the bones: The archaeology of human networks
REVIEW: 19:00 21 July 2014
The idea of human as networker is fast replacing the idea of human as toolmaker in the story of the human brain, claim two new books on our evolution
Londoners, look out for these giant digital eyes
PICTURE OF THE DAY: 17:28 18 July 2014
Gaze deep into the shop windows to the digital soul and discover something about your media-age emotions
Revealing all: A history of secret writing
REVIEW: 19:00 15 July 2014
A history of secret messages that runs from lemon juice to codes in digital photos, Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies doesn't quite live up to its glamorous title
