Loving Vincent is not just a groundbreaking piece of animation, it was a labour of love for husband-and-wife director team Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, who spent six years bringing the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s last months to the big screen. Recreating his vivid brushstroke style, the film resembles the struggling artist’s paintings come to life – and to mesmerising effect. Stuart Messinger looks at the artistic processes behind a film that perfectly bridges the space between a traditional artform and cutting-edge animation technology.

Not all dinosaurs were scaly, green lizards. In fact new research shows some were not just feathered but also stripy. Fiann Smethwick explains how discovering the stripes on one dinosaur revealed a surprising amount about how it lived.

In October 1842, physicist Michael Faraday received a letter from a lawyer in Swansea, south Wales. In this note, the budding scientist described his invention of a “curious voltaic pile”. The writer, William Robert Grove, had created the very first fuel cell battery. Science historian Iwan Morus tells the story of how this Victorian technology came to be, and why it did not take over the world.

In a day of high drama on Friday, soon after the Catalan parliament voted in favour of independence, the Spanish senate triggered Article 155 to remove the region’s autonomy. Follow The Conversation’s ongoing analysis of what happens next in Catalonia here.

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