29 January 2020
It’s the ultimate scientific quest – to understand everything that there is. But the closer we get, the further away it seems. Can we ever get to grips with the true nature of reality?
11 December 2019
Dark energy dominates the universe, and could lead it to a cold, bleak end. But that's not to say we have much clue what it is or how it works
10 April 2019
Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light
19 September 2018
Supernovae are violent stellar explosions that pepper the cosmos. Studying them revealed the enigma of dark energy – a force that will determine the universe's fate
2 August 2018
From Battlestar Galactica to The Terminator, on-screen robots have never been above a little rule-breaking. Could our new laws of robotics keep them in line?
27 June 2018
Source of many a t-shirt joke, the tale of the cat that’s both dead and alive is pretty familiar. But even the experts are divided as to its meaning
20 June 2018
Take one ravaging disease and add two parts British imperialism and Italian nationalism – it's a toxic cocktail with criminal effects still felt today
25 April 2018
Awarded every four years, the Fields medals honour the brightest young mathematical talent. We look back at some of the most intriguing past winners
25 April 2018
For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize
6 December 2017
Something is tearing everything apart even faster than we thought – and not even atoms will survive, never mind our picture of how the universe evolved
