14 January 2019
How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?
28 November 2018
In the sylvan surroundings of Dartington Hall, the pioneers of immersive theatre are exploring the many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, one air crash at a time
5 September 2018
A 50th-anniversary screening of Planet of the Apes, the latest installment of Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast, and a game where everything is left to the players to decide
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
21 February 2018
We can’t wait for the next generation to solve the problem of climate change but today’s kids can still be a big force for change, says Michael E. Mann
24 January 2018
In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story
6 December 2017
As new politics of protecting natural resources emerges, what does that mean for water? And who writes the rules? Three new books explore
2 November 2017
Mary Halton reflects on how books on forecasting, rock-reading and the grisly world of Victorian medicine highlight how we have always relied on those in the know
11 August 2017
Climate denialism seems to loom large, but after 10 years delivering his message globally, Al Gore believes we’re on the road to salvation
27 June 2017
Offsetting social problems posed by financial overheating and tech disruption puts utopian ideas such as basic income centre stage, argue two new books
