How old is the moon?
A new study concludes that Earth's nearest neighbour is younger than we thought.
Science & Technology
Engineering nature
From pandemics to climate change, new techniques in chemistry use the power of nature to fight existential challenges
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".
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".