Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful ...

This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract images ...

A bizarre theory (and a gory surgery) in fin-de-siècle Vienna help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work ...

Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation ...

Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child ...

An appreciation of the immensity embedded in the ocean’s cycles offers a way to reimagine our relationship with time ...