Consciousness and altered states

Psychology

Seeing and somethingness

Philosophy of mind

Evolution

Science

Fortune favours the shrewd

Biology

Animals and humans

Why whale song is like pop music

Oceans and water

What on earth is a xenobot?

Genetics

Computing and artificial intelligence

Connected-up-brains

Neuroscience

Cognition and intelligence

The split-body problem

History of science

The web of life

Sleep and dreams

Ancestral dreams

Stories and literature

The many disguises of Australian walking sticks

Ecology and environmental sciences

Promethean beasts

Anthropology

Palaeontology

This riotous life

Deep time

On the origin of minds

History of ideas

Physics

Why simplicity works

Philosophy of science

What animals think of death

An idea with bite

Aerial sheep herding in Yokneam

Rotifers: charmingly bizarre and often ignored

Charting animal cognition

The undying hydra

The penis: a life

Sex and sexuality

They are prisoners

Kidnapper ants

Evolution’s engineers

Eyes in the dark

Information and communication

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. 