Science

Why we can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator

Joel Frohlich

Gentle medicine could radically transform medical practice

Jacob Stegenga

The macho sperm myth

The idea that millions of sperm are on an Olympian race to reach the egg is yet another male fantasy of human reproduction

Robert D Martin

The obesity era

As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice. The problem may be bigger than any of us

David Berreby

Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse

6 minutes

Lifestyle changes, not a magic pill, can reverse Alzheimer’s

Clayton Dalton

What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’

Jim Baggott

Exodus

Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future

Ross Andersen

Our Universe is too vast for even the most imaginative sci-fi

Michael Strauss

Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past

Catherine Stinson

The case against sugar

A potent toxin that alters hormones and metabolism, sugar sets the stage for epidemic levels of obesity and diabetes

Gary Taubes

Radical dimensions

Relativity says we live in four dimensions. String theory says it’s 10. What are ‘dimensions’ and how do they affect reality?

Margaret Wertheim

War in the womb

A ferocious biological struggle between mother and baby belies any sentimental ideas we might have about pregnancy

Suzanne Sadedin

Time is an object

Not a backdrop, an illusion or an emergent phenomenon, time has a physical size that can be measured in laboratories

Sara Walker & Lee Cronin

Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex

Walter Vannini

Yo-Yo Ma performs a work for cello in the woods, accompanied by a birdsong chorus

4 minutes