Biology

Science

The split-body problem

Evolution

History of science

The web of life

Genetics

Sleep and dreams

Psychology

Ancestral dreams

Stories and literature

The many disguises of Australian walking sticks

Ecology and environmental sciences

Promethean beasts

Animals and humans

Anthropology

Palaeontology

This riotous life

Deep time

Cognition and intelligence

On the origin of minds

History of ideas

Physics

Why simplicity works

Philosophy of science

What animals think of death

Philosophy of mind

An idea with bite

Aerial sheep herding in Yokneam

Rotifers: charmingly bizarre and often ignored

Charting animal cognition

The undying hydra

Oceans and water

The penis: a life

Sex and sexuality

They are prisoners

Kidnapper ants

Evolution’s engineers

Eyes in the dark

Information and communication

Is the Earth an organism?

Illness and disease

Beautiful monsters

Medicine

Philosophy

Cognition all the way down

Being eaten

The physarum experiments

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. 