Idea/ History of Science Enlightenment rationality is not enough: we need a new Romanticism Jim Kozubek
Essay/ History of Science What is good science? Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas Adam Becker
Essay/ Human Evolution In to Asia New evidence about the ancient humans who occupied Asia is cascading in: the story of our species needs rewriting again Christopher Bae
Essay/ Earth Science The shape of life The ancient Earth was profoundly alien. How do we distinguish between the living and non-living in the fossil record? Sophia Roosth
Essay/ Stories & Literature Thus spake Albert You probably know a quote from him. He probably never said it. How did Einstein become a touchstone of all that is wise? Andrew Robinson
Video/ Evolution Why do domesticated animals tend to have floppy ears, short snouts and lighter skin? 3 minutes
Idea/ History of Science What a fossil revolution reveals about the history of ‘big data’ David Sepkoski
Video/ History of Science A 1909 animation on how spiders take to the air is a charming dip into the history of science 1 minute
Idea/ Philosophy of Language How the idea of family relationships shaped racial thought Stefani Engelstein
Idea/ Philosophy of Science You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time Elise Crull
Essay/ History of Science Life in hollow Earth Is Earth inside the Universe, or vice versa? Since we can grasp only a model of reality, how do we know what’s real? Joel Frohlich
Essay/ History of Science Spiritual hyperplane How spiritualists of the 19th century forged a lasting association between higher dimensions and the occult world Paul Halpern
Essay/ Evolution Evolution unleashed Is evolutionary science due for a major overhaul – or is talk of ‘revolution’ misguided? Kevin Laland
Essay/ Economics Economics is quantum Money and brains are both quantum phenomena – so it's not surprising that economics is overdue for a quantum revolution David Orrell
Essay/ History of Science Armchair science Thought experiments played a crucial role in the history of science. But do they tell us anything about the real world? Dan Falk
Essay/ Philosophy of Science Metaphysics of metamorphosis The swarming, ever-changing character of the living world challenges our deepest assumptions about the nature of reality John Dupré
Essay/ History of Science Against citizen science It might style itself as a grassroots movement but citizen science is little more than a cheap land-grab by big business Philip Mirowski
Essay/ History of Science Science is broken Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research Siddhartha Roy & Marc A Edwards
Essay/ History of Science Monster mash Beastly births, ass-popes and satanic hybrids: nothing distils the weirdness of the early moderns like their woodcuts Jon Crabb
Idea/ History of Science A tale of ‘trons’: the suffix that tells the story of modern science David Munns
Essay/ History of Science Does science need mavericks? Staid and conformist, science risks losing its creative spark. Does it need more mavericks, or are they part of the problem? Adrian Currie
Essay/ Cultures & Languages Talking gibberish The study of languages has long been prone to nonsense. Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots? Gaston Dorren
Idea/ History of Science The most wonderful words in science: ‘We have no idea… yet!’ Daniel Whiteson
Idea/ History of Science Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it Peter Harrison
Essay/ Data & Information The bit bomb It took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
Essay/ Physics Operation: neutrino How the neutrino went from ghost particle to vital physics tool – a tale of bombs, espionage and subtle flavours David Kaiser