Earth science and climate

Science

Utuqaq

Knowledge

Deep time

Physics

The cosmic chasm

Cosmology

Culture

Cave art

Animals and humans

Evolution

Origin story

History of science

Thinkers and theories

Philosophy

Before, now, and next

The planet is burning

Environmental history

Ecology and environmental sciences

The cosmic now

Timelapse of the future

The future

We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal

The environment

Time after time

Fieldwork: comb jellies

Biology

We are dead stars

Astronomy

What is the shape of space?

Animated life: Pangea, Wegener and the continental drift

The known Universe

Riding light

The missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found

Palaeontology

Welcome to Terra Sapiens

What say you, dinosaur?

Laws or comets?

History

Stories and literature

Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces

How the face of a distant star reveals our place in the cosmos

Space exploration

Rock, paper, scissors, lizard

Evolution of the Moon

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. 