Defend the deep

Instead of letting waves of exploitation sweep through the deep ocean, we could choose to protect this vast living realm

Helen Scales

Healthcare workers of yore

Looking past conventional histories of medicine we see that women delivered much of medieval healthcare. Just as today

Sara Ritchey

Why simplicity works

Does the existence of a multiverse hold the key for why nature’s laws seem so simple?

Johnjoe McFadden

Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second

5 minutes

Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her supervisor

16 minutes

In this 1975 lecture, the maglev train’s inventor deconstructs his ingenious design

19 minutes

Enduring memory

How can animals whose brains have been drastically remodelled still recall their kin, their traumas and their skills?

Thomas R Verny