17 November 2021
Humans aren’t the only animals to get wasted once in a while. Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins by Oné R. Pagán shows how all manner of creatures do something similar, with amusing effects
30 October 2019
The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch charts a radical theory about consciousness that shows the survival advantages for humans, and why computers can never be conscious
4 September 2019
If you're struggling to understand the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity, you need all the help you can get – even borrowing Buddhist mysticism, shows a new book
28 August 2019
Fuelled by government and corporate dollars, being happy has become near mandatory. A controversial new book, Manufacturing Happy Citizens, explains the rise of positive psychology
12 June 2019
We're not wrong to think we have free will, but The Science of Fate by Hannah Critchlow reveals the moral complexities underpinning our sense of unlimited choice
8 May 2019
In her monthly sci-fi column, Helen Marshall plumbs the mind's most gripping fictional futures in Jeanette Winterson's Frankissstein and Ted Chiang's Exhalation
1 May 2019
We need to think our brain doesn't lie to get us through the day, but as a new London exhibition called Smoke and Mirrors shows, magic relies on the fact that it does
28 November 2018
From the true nature of time to the world's most extraordinary brains to why you should ditch social media, Culture picks the best books to give this year
25 July 2018
Enjoy the latest film in the Ant-Man franchise, find out what exoplanets can teach us about Earth and listen to an array of scientific marvels
30 May 2018
A new book about shadowing a team of behavioural geneticists shows them at great pains to capture the vagaries and complexities of their tricky research
