is a producer and curator of talks, broadcasts and animations. She was the senior producer of the RSA’s public events programme for more than a decade, curating a year-round festival that showcased ...

Physicists and philosophers today have formulated three opposing models that explain how laws work. Which is the best?

Each summer for more than half a century, the US ecologist and biologist David Inouye has returned to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado. Working out of a small cabin, he ...

There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?

is professor of biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. His latest book is The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory (2020), co-authored with Robert N Brandon.

is a writer who lives in southern California. He holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Fulbright grant recipient.

is professor of sleep physiology and tutorial fellow in medicine at the University of Oxford, as well as vice-president of the European Sleep Research Society and a TEDx speaker.

The Greek philosopher Democritus first proposed that the Universe was built from indivisible building blocks, or atomos, in roughly 400 BCE. This animation from physicists at the Massachusetts ...