The world, and your phone, is dependent on chemicals. What happens when they run out?

Kenneth Park murdered his in-laws while sleepwalking.

From Greek mythology to Turritopsis jellyfish: an investigation into immortality.

What science can tell us about dreams and consciousness.

How to make a dragon in just a few (hundred million) short years

How would dragons avoid burning themselves and their habitats?

One special type of bacteria could be the key to dragonfire.

Could dragons do what no known organism has done before?

Large animals have trouble flying. How would a dragon pull it off?

Are dragons feasible? Let’s rewind evolution to find out.

The science and history behind the making of butter

Newton was an alchemist. Mary Poppins may have been a witch. What are scientists today?

The hunter-gatherers learnt to farm. What are the farmers learning?

Is it possible to remove moral values from science?

Would teleportation transport you or kill you? And what exactly are “you” anyway?

Elevators take us up buildings in a jiffy. What if they could take us to the sky?

Science, society, and the truth behind expert testimony.

There are so many ways to be immortal. Which one works for you?

What it is and why this is a good time to start caring.

Scientifically, you’re better-looking than your parents. And, your kids will be better-looking than you.

Ancient Athenians elected people by lottery. Are eight-dimensional quasi-creatures doing the same to us?

We have become a salt-obsessed society, but maybe we can blame our ancestors for that?

What a hot cup of coffee tells us about the history of life on Earth

The mythology, technology, and commercialism of our slumbers.

We may not have the same jobs as you, but our life is busy too.

A wander through the science and symbolism of majestic oaks, as we search for a way home to forests.

Eating more meat made us human. Now our survival demands we eat less of it.

These tiny, colourful bees make great pollinators — and they love the taste of human sweat.

How a World of Warcraft bug could provide insights into the world’s latest epidemic.

The 17th-century mistake that put the ‘fizz’ into fizzy

Master or slave?

Why solitary bee awareness should be the new ‘it’ item on everyone’s holiday wishlist.

A history of the universe in verse

Is it really all just mumbo-jumbo woo-woo talk?

Our incomplete education could end the world. Can the humanities save us from ourselves?

How do we prevent robots from turning on their human masters?

Hot springs, colourful microbes: surviving in a world that’s unique, beautiful, and hostile

How come our Universe was fine-tuned to enable the miracle of Life?

How humans find meaning when they can’t find the answers.

Is fire really evil? Maybe it’s just a natural part of the environment.

Superposition, tunnelling, entanglement, and other bits and pieces of quantum mechanics.

Why duality is like an elephant: an overview of the double-slit experiment and its implications.

Is a particle a wave? Is a mango a line? Some things can never be known for certain.

Theories are great at describing the world—but we need to take them less literally.

Join my journey from the mid-galactic black-hole to the keratin in your hair, and discover the beauty of physics.

Why does the Earth spin one way and not the other? There’s a logical reason.

Or, how to make a telescope as large as the world.

White spots are good: are you throwing away a perfectly good cheese?

Who owns the Mound? The answer is not so clear.

Are we basically two people at once?

How fast does time move? The answer depends on what you’re thinking.

How fast does time go, exactly? The answer can depend on who you are.

What is a plant made of? The answer may surprise you.

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It’s not just about turning text to thoughts: how you read, and what you read it on, can literally change your brain.

Humans dream of contacting aliens — but will we understand what they’re saying?

I help water to freeze and ice to fall, and can make clouds rain at my command.

Nobody’s found signs of alien life yet. So why do they keep on looking?

They talk about Life on other planets, but have we even seen the limits of life here on Earth?

Will the leguminous Prince find her? And what root will he take?

How does a river fight disease? By making your illness catch a cold.

Some organisms never quite worked out how to live with it. This is the story of where they went.

First there were six. Then there were nine. And then there were eight. Now, are there 110?

Light, sight, and why things may not be the same colours they look.

The little creatures that rule the world.

They may seem still. But actually, they’re always on the move.

4G is coming to the Moon. Can it be used for spacecraft on Mars?

There’s General Relativity and Special Relativity. And then, there’s the relativity we encounter every day.

Carbon is not alive. But without carbon, there would be no life at all.

If Mars was magnetic, could Life have lived?

Childhood memories of a Carbon atom.

Why does the moon stay up in the sky? Because it’s always falling.

When you’re inside water, sleeping is not so easy.

Fireflies blink their lights. In the ocean, it’s more dramatic.

It might not seem something as constant as length would have a history, but it does.

The animals and plants of Australia are very different from the animals and plants of any other part of the world.

If you were a vulture flying for the first time across certain parts of the desert, you would notice the waves.