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The Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 commissioned 17 young people from Khayelitsha, Western Cape, South Africa empowering them to explore health and wellbeing in their…

Bedlam has long been a byword for chaos. Now a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection opens the doors to the historic asylum from which it derives. Through the lens of the…

Canopy is Wellcome’s citizen art and science festival and network, bringing health to the heart of climate action.

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-…

The Wellcome Photography Prize 2021 commissioned three photographers from three different countries to explore the dangers our heating planet has on our physical health.

A captivating digital illustration portraying a personal experience of Crohn’s disease has been selected as the overall winner for the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards.

A new report published today identifies options through which funders can help ensure that the rapidly growing open access market delivers high-quality services and value for…

Wellcome Collection’s major new exhibition takes a closer look at something that surrounds us but we are often reluctant to confront. ‘Dirt: the filthy reality of everyday…

As the climate crisis intensifies, it shrinks and contaminates the water we rely on. We need to act now to reduce the existing and emerging threat that this poses to our…

The Wellcome Photography Prize has announced its 2020 shortlist.

The Wellcome Photography Prize announces its 2021 winners, chosen from photographs exploring the human side of three urgent health challenges: mental health, infectious…

Jameisha Prescod and Yoppy Pieter have been announced as the winners of the Wellcome Photography Prize 2021.

The voice is shapeless and immaterial, and yet fills up an entire gallery in Wellcome Collection's major spring exhibition.

Few careers are straightforward. Lucy took two years' break from academia, changed disciplines to return – and became a new parent just as she started her postdoc.

Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports on an outbreak that went on far longer than anyone expected.

Leading Indian psychiatrist Professor Vikram Patel has published two studies today in The Lancet1 that he argues provide strong evidence for the roll out of lay counselling…

Winning images from the 2017 Wellcome Image Awards.