Book Review: The Galileo Affair
A thorough account of the persecution and trial of a man for "the most significant breakthrough in the history of science".
Science & Technology
Billionaire boy kings
Silicon Valley has lost its utopian sheen in recent years. Two fiery new books take the tech bros to task
Book review: An Indifference of Birds
What if we looked at human history from a bird's eye view?
Trying for kids
A wave of recent dramas has finally put the realities of infertility centre stage
Giving away our DNA
Sold as an empowering route to better health, are genetic testing kits any more than a data grab?
Miracle of the plague year
Bubonic plague is raging in London. A 22-year-old man named Isaac Newton is isolating at his family farm.
Modified humans
Will the rapid advance of gene-editing technology have unintended consequences?
“We need to make sure that lives are valued fairly”
Q&A with Howard Steven Friedman, author of "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life".
AI antibiotics
The threat of antibiotic resistance is looming, but artificial intelligence may show the way forward
Wonderchicken
Evidence of a modern bird species living side by side with dinosaurs has been uncovered