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A sponge

Physics

Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power

Seawater is full of far more uranium than we can mine from the ground, and specialised sponges could let us harvest it to use in nuclear power plants

News

How quantum sensors can improve our lives and agriculture

How quantum sensors can improve our lives and agriculture

Video

Journeys into particle physics

Journeys into particle physics

Video

Colin Clive and Boris Karloff

Mind

How sci-fi like Frankissstein helps us face our fears of the future

Culture

Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

Space

Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future

Culture

medieval manuscript

Life

Don't miss: celestial bodies, mathematical beauty and sci-fi fun

Culture

What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

Physics

What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?

Features

Ian McEwan

Technology

Why Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction

Culture

A new transparent wood becomes cloudier (right) upon the release of stored heat.

Technology

Windows made of transparent wood could help keep buildings warm

News

Clockwork Orange

Life

Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia

This week: A Clockwork Orange is re-released, women abandon technology careers and everyone hankers after gold.

Culture

Space

NASA cancels first all-women spacewalk due to spacesuit size issue

News

Comment

Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

Comment

Technology

To avert environmental disaster, we need to return to the trees

Leader

Technology

Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood

Features