Science

Cutting photons is infinitely weirdMuhammad Fawaid/Alamy In Greek mythology, cutting one head off the Hydra of Lerna simply...

The Embedding is a first-contact novel that centres on linguisticsIgnatiev/Getty Images The EmbeddingIan Watson, Gollancz The acclaimed British...

Setting your sights high can lead to bigger rewards – up to a pointBuena Vista Images/Getty Images Shoot...

Paul Erdős made many conjectures about numbers in his lifeOliver Helbig/Getty Images Just a week after an AI...

Embryo models closely resemble early human embryosSCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy Inside a lab in Vienna, cells are dividing to...

Wherever you are reading this, look around you. Every living thing you can see – other people, pets,...

Sometimes, you work tirelessly on a problem, only to realise you have been going about it all backwards....

We may now know how Mercury gained its ice depositsNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Around 100 million years ago,...

Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads the fight in Rise of the Planet of the Apes20thC.Fox/Everett/Shutterstock Rise of the Planet...

For me, the past year has been what might euphemistically be described as “challenging”. Not long after leaving...