Astronomy

Science

Brilliant noise

Physics

Engineering

Consciousness and altered states

Psychology

Seeing and somethingness

Philosophy of mind

Evolution

Fortune favours the shrewd

Biology

Animals and humans

Wrought

Food and drink

Chemistry

Why whale song is like pop music

Oceans and water

A touch of moss

History of science

Nature and landscape

Einstein’s twin paradox

Mathematics

Space exploration

What on earth is a xenobot?

Genetics

Computing and artificial intelligence

Illness and disease

Are they the canaries?

Cities

Medicine

Cosmology

Dark horses in the cosmos

Deep time

Mood and emotion

Perfecting the art of longing

Love and friendship

Bird of prey

Travel

Culture

Recoding art

Future of technology

Ecology and environmental sciences

Can we create the perfect farm?

The people of the cloud

Anthropology

Work

5,000 exoplanets

In the gale

Music

Imaginary numbers are real

Quantum theory

Not even for a moment do things stand still

Ageing and death

Society

Keeping our options open

The environment

Human evolution

Out of the forest

Archaeology

Seeing life

What does dying really feel like?

Neuroscience

Connected-up-brains

Cognition and intelligence

Essays and videos exploring physics, evolution, cosmology and other frontiers in science

Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology. 