Why schrödinger’s cat is still the most controversial thought experiment in science

You might think that creating a highly accurate model of the way air passes through a jet engine would be relatively easy. It is incredibly hard. The enormous number of variables means that it is, in

What happens when the human brain shuts down

f you’ve ever read anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around us, everything we see and touch, every star and gas cloud and planet, makes up just

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

The Universe is a big and complex beast, and doesn’t always behave in the way we might expect. So it’s not surprising that there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about space. Some common