29 August 2018
Aboriginal stories about startlingly rapid rises in sea level describe real events at the end of the ice age, says a new book. Are we stupid to distrust oral traditions?
17 August 2018
What could possibly go wrong when a world famous public intellectual grapples with our bewilderingly strange times? Find out in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
18 July 2018
Explore 3D printing in medical transplants, join some artistic frolics at Kew's Sussex home, and discover history's first unsolved murder case in the film story of Ötzi
19 March 2018
Steven Pinker argues for optimism and Enlightenment values in his latest book, but there are some serious flaws in his argument
19 December 2017
Enjoy the spectacular cosmos with this illustrated guide to astronomy, ranging from an iconic diagram by Copernicus to one of NASA's 2017 Jupiter photos
19 December 2017
Turning US sci-fi television into 21st century theatre is oddly successful as a portent of doom in a world increasingly incapable of separating fact from fiction
21 July 2017
What happened when all 129 men in John Franklin’s Arctic expedition vanished in the late 1840s? We’re finally putting the pieces together
25 May 2017
A production by London’s Young Vic of Bertolt Brecht’s play about Galileo turns a sombre affair into a raucous rave – for better and for worse
5 May 2017
Putting his passion on the scientific map took Joseph Hooker on wild adventures – everywhere from the Antarctic to Everest, a London exhibition shows
