Essay/Quantum Theory Quantum common sense Despite its confounding reputation, quantum mechanics both guides and helps explain human intuition Philip Ball
Essay/Epidemiology Who names diseases? Swine Flu, Naples Soldier, Ebola. Disease names express fear, create stigma and distract attention. Can they be improved? Laura Spinney
Video/Evolution Watch as the whale becomes itself: slowly, slowly, from land to sea, through deep time 10 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/History of Science The cosmology of Poe Drawing on intuition, Edgar Allan Poe offered some remarkably prescient ideas about the universe in his poem 'Eureka' Paul Halpern
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Automation & Robotics Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities Ahmed Alkhateeb
Video/Knowledge Models are always imperfect, and the ones we choose greatly shape our experience 3 minutes
Video/History of Technology Breakthroughs, quackery and strange beauty: the afterlife of outmoded medical devices 5 minutes
Essay/Physics Minding matter The closer you look, the more the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shaky metaphysical ground Adam Frank
Video/History of Science ‘I could not but wonder at it’: history’s first glimpses into the microbial world 7 minutes
Essay/Physics This granular life That the world is not solid but made up of tiny particles is a very ancient insight. Is it humanity’s greatest idea? Carlo Rovelli
Idea/History of Science The missing fossils matter as much as the ones we have found Adrian Currie & Derek Turner
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Physics Why we can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator Joel Frohlich
Essay/Education Child’s play The authoritative statement of scientific method derives from a surprising place — early 20th-century child psychology Henry Cowles
Video/History of Science Energy is like children’s toys: often hiding out of sight, but never actually lost 3 minutes
Video/Philosophy of Science ‘Falsification’ ruled 20th-century science. Does it need revision in the 21st? 2 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History of Science Why the hype around medical genetics is a public enemy Nathaniel Comfort
Video/Earth Science Battling sexism and dissension, Marie Tharp changed how we understand the Earth 5 minutes
Video/History of Science Science doesn’t rely on luck, but success in science can’t do without it 5 minutes
Essay/Neuroscience Mesmerising Look into my eyes: the fantastical history, mysterious healing power and emergent neuroscience of hypnosis Erik Vance
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/History of Technology It’s not all lightbulbs If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way W Patrick McCray
Essay/Mathematics The problem with p-values Academic psychology and medical testing are both dogged by unreliability. The reason is clear: we got probability wrong David Colquhoun
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/History of Science Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious Christopher Graney
Essay/Physics Taming the quantum spooks Reconciling Einstein with quantum mechanics may require abandoning the notion that cause always precedes effect Huw Price & Ken Wharton