Book review: “Self Defence – A Myth-Busting Guide to Immune Health”
Vitamin C and exercise? An immunologist separates the facts from the myths – and what we simply don't know – about immune health
Science & Technology
5 breakthroughs in cancer research
Cancer isn't a single disease, but remarkable progress is being made in preventing, diagnosing and treating some types. We look at the most exciting advances
Afterlife: freeze and upload
Would you preserve your brain after death? Cryonics has advanced in recent years, but there is no guarantee of a “second life”
Down with AI doom
We must resist the feeling of powerlessness amid the relentless spread of AI
Book review: Beyond Belief
It took centuries for medicine to systematically privilege evidence over intuition – and other sectors still lag behind
In praise of the greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect is essential for life on Earth – even if human activity has pushed it to dangerous levels
Prophet bots
Artificial intelligence agents seem to have created their own religion, Crustafarianism. Is that possible?
A twisted breed
Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic fantasy
The miraculous maths of the Universe
The laws of nature are mathematical – but we don't fully understand why
Book review: I Told You So!
A new book asks why some scientific discoveries are overlooked