A dramatic twist to the Gaia hypothesis
21 August 2024
James Lovelock's hypothesis that our planet is a living entity is well known. Ferris Jabr's new book Becoming Earth takes it a step further
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Don’t miss: Latest Ant-Man film, exoplanets and a mind-blowing podcast
25 July 2018
Enjoy the latest film in the Ant-Man franchise, find out what exoplanets can teach us about Earth and listen to an array of scientific marvels
Rider in the sky stars in first cloud movie
3 July 2015
Eadweard Muybridge's famous galloping horses are projected directly onto clouds from an aircraft in ground-breaking art installation
Sea of selfies – social media's monoculture threat
11 August 2014
Social media's just fun, right? No, says a new art exhibition: tweets and selfies are creating monoculture, an online equivalent to crops like rape seed
Festival shows the promises and perils of open data
25 July 2014
Governments and big businesses want information to be free, but how will it work? A Berlin festival last week cast a friendly but critical eye over the idea
Drawing on a moon brings out people's best and worst
6 December 2013
A collaborative art website launched by artists Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson lets people draw on the surface of a moon-like orb – with surprising results
Locating art in the brain of the beholder
16 October 2013
New books by Anjan Chatterjee and Arthur Shimamura tackle neuroaesthetics, the search for links between brain activity and preferences for art
How citizens can make cities better
2 October 2013
A new exhibition in New York showcases 100 important urban trends identified by a pop-up laboratory that visited New York, Berlin and Mumbai
Dances with molecules
2 August 2013
Quantum chemistry shows you the dancing atoms you share the world with
Holiday reading: The latest scientific must-reads
17 July 2013
Something for the weekend? Sharpen your mind on the best recently released books
