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Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

27 February 2019

Peek behind the scenes of the lab at London's Francis Crick Institute, hear all about the proposed particle accelerator at CERN and play a new video game

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science

27 February 2019

Physicist and BBC presenter Jim Al-Khalili reveals how he kept his novel Sunfall real – while still being a nail-biting page-turner

An AI has created music based on Bach – but will an audience notice?

27 February 2019

An experiment at London's Barbican will pit an AI composer trained on the works of Bach against the original pieces in a concert called The Eternal Golden Braid

I'm travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind

27 February 2019

Eric Alm is racing to find out which gut microbes thrive in diverse human cultures before it is too late. His microbiome library – derived from faecal samples – could help solve future health crises

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

27 February 2019

For 118 elements, the trends of the periodic table have held reasonably well. But we might soon make atoms so huge they break all the rules

Light pollution has reached fragile habitats and may threaten wildlife

27 February 2019

A dull orange skyglow as bright as the moon now smudges out the stars in over two-thirds of the world’s safe havens for biodiversity

Police drones with lasers could help find a murder victim in Australia

26 February 2019

The Australian Federal Police wants to use drones equipped with lasers to find a buried body in a murder case

The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago

26 February 2019

Contrary to the myth, Dmitri Mendeleev's great idea didn't come to him in a dream. Here's the real story of the invention and the revolution that followed