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Editor's note
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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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Jane Wright
Commissioning Editor
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Top story
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Stuart Messinger, Staffordshire University
A labour of love, this groundbreaking animation took six years and hundreds of artists to bring Vincent Van Gogh's vivid paintings to life.
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Science + Technology
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Fiann Smithwick, University of Bristol
Reconstructing the colours of the feathered Sinosauropteryx gives hints about its habitat and lifestyle.
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Iwan Morus, Aberystwyth University
An obscure technology from the past has the potential to change the world's future.
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Jan Raack, The Open University
Simulations in a special chamber suggest how the Mars landscape could have been shaped under certain conditions.
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Politics + Society
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Georgina Blakeley, The Open University
Move by the senate in Madrid came just after the Catalan parliament voted for independence.
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Patricia Hogwood, University of Westminster
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Will Dinan, University of Stirling
PR for dummies and despots.
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Nick Clare, University of Nottingham; Liz Mason-Deese, George Mason University; Victoria Habermehl, University of Sheffield
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Ingrid A. Medby, Oxford Brookes University
A photograph of Siv Jensen dressed up as a Native American caused outrage in Norway, not least among the indigenous Sami minority.
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Environment + Energy
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Miranda Dyson, The Open University; Philip Sexton, The Open University
Besides wondrous creatures, new discoveries and spectacular filming, Sir David Attenborough's follow up to The Blue Planet comes with a stark warning about the future
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Business + Economy
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Udeni Salmon, Keele University
The UK lags behind poor nations when it comes to young business owners, so what's stopping them taking the plunge.
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Arts + Culture
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Roberta Magnani, Swansea University
The virgin martyrs were slaughtered to stop them speaking out, and yet their stories have prevailed.
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Sam George, University of Hertfordshire
How the vampire transitioned from folkloric peasant to Byronic Lord.
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Cities
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Jim Uttley, University of Sheffield
The clock change's impact on commuter numbers highlights the need to use street lighting more effectively.
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Health + Medicine
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Angela Clow, University of Westminster; Nina Smyth, University of Westminster
Lighter mornings set off a vital biological chain reaction that sets you up for the day.
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