Separating fame from paint

Why celebrity artists reap greater rewards than creative ones – not just at Christie’s

A good plan violently executed

While young Boyan Slat is determined to rid the oceans of plastic, the experts keep telling him it’s not a good idea

Why robots will work for us

The robot revolution will easily generate new, specialized human jobs, rather than just take them away

Creative by influence

Researchers at Rutgers University create an algorithm that assesses a painting's originality by its influence on others

The road to singularity

A model predicting terrorist behaviour reveals the first step towards creative artificial intelligence

The beauty of creativity

How our ‘aesthetic sensibility’ is naturally attracted to creative ideas

3D printed human beings

Though we don’t know exactly where 3D printing will take us, it will most definitely physically change us