Quantum common sense

Despite its confounding reputation, quantum mechanics both guides and helps explain human intuition

Philip Ball

The idea of creating a new universe in the lab is no joke

Zeeya Merali

The cosmology of Poe

Drawing on intuition, Edgar Allan Poe offered some remarkably prescient ideas about the universe in his poem 'Eureka'

Paul Halpern

Dwarf planetary systems will transform the hunt for alien life

Amaury Triaud & Michaël Gillon

Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities

Ahmed Alkhateeb

Echoes of a black hole

Ripples in space-time could herald the demise of general relativity and its replacement by a quantum theory of gravity

Sabine Hossenfelder

How many great minds does it take to invent a telescope?

Thony Christie

Minding matter

The closer you look, the more the materialist position in physics appears to rest on shaky metaphysical ground

Adam Frank

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

How the rainbow illuminates the enduring mystery of physics

Jon Butterworth

Welcome to Terra Sapiens

Humans have been altering Earth for millennia, but only now are we wise to what we’re doing. How will we use that wisdom?

David Grinspoon

What the death of an oak tree can teach us about mortality

Gabriel Popkin

Has dogma derailed the scientific search for dark matter?

Pavel Kroupa

Keeping kids frenetically entertained is ruining our museums

Brian Switek

Written in baleen

Trees lay down rings, the Earth tells its story in geological strata and now we’ve found the secret archive of the whale

Rebecca Kessler

Taming the quantum spooks

Reconciling Einstein with quantum mechanics may require abandoning the notion that cause always precedes effect

Huw Price & Ken Wharton

Reporters should ask themselves: ‘What would Einstein do?’

Thomas Levenson

Gravitational waves will bring the extreme universe into view

Daniel Hoak

What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists

Sabine Hossenfelder

How the face of a distant star reveals our place in the cosmos

Rachael Roettenbacher

Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had

Brian Switek

Anthropology is far from licking the problem of fossil ages

Paige Madison

The link between language and cognition is a red herring

Frans de Waal

We made a minimal cell and began a synthetic-life revolution

Dan Gibson