27 September 2023
Neuroscientist Camilla Nord, who has just published her first book The Balanced Brain, tells Liz Else why mental health science is increasingly about what works for individuals – from psychedelic therapy to exercise regimes
21 April 2023
AI tools can explore the ethics of AI itself, says Lavie Tidhar. His new dystopian film uses AI image-generation program Midjourney to tell the story of a well-meaning artificial intelligence trying to help the last surviving human
31 October 2022
In 1992, a TV show petrified millions of UK viewers with a “live” investigation of a paranormal event. What happened next? Its writer, Stephen Volk, explains
12 October 2022
The cartoonist and engineer reveals what percentage of all humans who have ever lived are your ancestors, and what might happen if you pumped pure ammonia into your stomach (don't)
5 November 2021
The human immune system is one of the most complex biological systems we know of, and yet most of us never learn how it works or what it is, says Philipp Dettmer, founder of YouTube channel Kurzgesagt. In his new book, Immune, he hopes to change all...
10 July 2019
Artist Olafur Eliasson, who brought the sun to Tate Modern's turbine hall in 2003, returns with In Real Life, a new exhibition featuring incredible installations. We quiz him on selfies, short-term thinking and the climate reckoning to come
5 June 2019
In his new book Upheaval, polymath Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation
5 December 2018
The creator of cult comics Watchmen and Halo Jones is an occultist, but his love of science shows in the way he plays with quantum characters and consciousness
11 October 2018
Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh discusses her new dance work, a creation that is epic yet intimate and that straddles both the human scale and the submicrobial
5 September 2018
The future is bright for our species, mostly because we kill everything in our path, says China's first winner of the Hugo science-fiction award
