Epic Games and Wellcome launch Developing Beyond a $500,000 games development challenge
Epic Games and Wellcome are inviting games developers based in Europe to participate in a new $500,000 year-long development competition Developing Beyond.
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Dust as art: donors required
Artist Serena Korda is making an unusual request. She has asked the public to donate dust, collected from their houses, workplaces or other locations, to form an artwork that…
New Wellcome Collection game asks: Who’s the Pest?
Wellcome Collection today lets loose armies of digital ants to terrorise gamers in ‘Who’s the Pest?’ But in this ant-filled and addictively frantic strategy game, the…
Wellcome Trust offers chance to feature in 'Criminel', a noir detective game
The Wellcome Trust is offering members of the public the opportunity to have their face featured in 'Criminel', a noir detective mystery game due for release via the App…
Semi-finalists announced for $500,000 Games Development Challenge: Developing Beyond
Human evolution, the Black Death and life on Mars are some of the themes chosen by the semi-finalists selected for Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development…
$500,000 video games challenge Developing Beyond reveals finalists
Games exploring life on Mars, plant breeding and the legacy of the Black Death have made it to the final of Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-long development competition…
Seed wins $500,000 Developing Beyond Video games final
A virtual reality plant breeding game won $150,000 yesterday evening when judges led by Susan Calman chose Seed by All Seeing Eye to win Developing Beyond, a $500,000 year-…
Crowdsourcing neuroscience: new games added to The Great Brain Experiment
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL have found that by using a mobile app, it is possible to gather, on a large scale, the type of information…
Wellcome Collection explores Art in Global Health
A ground-breaking new project from Wellcome Collection, Art in Global Health, is bringing artists and scientists together in six Wellcome Trust-funded research programmes…
Wellcome Trust initiative links science to the Olympic and Paralympic Games for everyone in 2012
How do athletes move so fast and jump so high? As the world focuses on the extraordinary feats of human performance that will take place in London next summer, the Wellcome…
‘Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan’ coming to Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection’s spring exhibition, ‘Outsider Art from Japan’, will bring together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK.…
Mobile games can be reliable tools for conducting psychology experiments, UK researchers find
Initial findings from one of the largest cognitive science experiments ever conducted have shown that mobile games can be used to reliably address psychology questions,…
Art and health in the slums: exploring the health concerns of Mumbai’s poorest communities
Dharavi, one of the most disadvantaged areas of Mumbai, India, is to be home to an ambitious art exhibition that has brought together residents, artists and health…
Rising star of art world to create stunning public sculpture for the Francis Crick Institute
Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute, has announced that the London artist Conrad Shawcross has been commissioned to create a stunning piece of public art for…
Wellcome Image Awards celebrates 20 years of bringing us closer to the art of science
The Wellcome Image Awards are celebrating their 20th year of bringing us the world’s most incredible science images. They will be shown at exhibitions held across the UK and…
Wellcome Launches Mindscapes: Addressing global mental health challenges through arts and culture
Wellcome today announces the launch of Mindscapes: a major international cultural programme that aims to expand how we understand, address and talk about mental health.
The Sick of the Fringe: celebrating science, health and art at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Science and health are to be front and centre stage in a mini-festival of events during this years’ Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Sick of the Fringe is bringing together…