14 February 2025
For more than 40 years, Jonathan McDowell has tirelessly catalogued the space industry. Now he is planning to retire, and looking to pass on his extensive collection of knowledge
23 January 2025
The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings
26 December 2023
Climate change and biodiversity loss may seem like insurmountable problems, but data scientist Hannah Ritchie is cautiously optimistic we can solve them
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)
27 May 2022
In the aftermath of yet another school shooting, many people in the US are desperate for solutions to the country’s gun violence epidemic. Andrew Morral from the research initiative Gun Policy in America discusses the latest evidence on which interventions...
25 May 2022
The 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to Marjan Minnesma, who sued the Dutch government over its carbon emissions plans
7 January 2022
Artificial intelligence’s lack of transparency is leading many to fear the technology and others to elevate it to a mysterious god-like figure, but we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used, says anthropologist Beth Singler
