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
Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe
2 June 2017
The universe is the word at Europe’s festivals this year, with no shortage of ways to explore the night sky – and plenty of other science to pursue
Level of confidence: Open-source art memorial to the missing
5 August 2015
An artwork exploits facial recognition software to make you identify with the kidnapped Mexican teachers it symbolically seeks
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
I'm homing in on the genetic essence of life
9 July 2014
Synthetic biologist Hamilton Smith wants to find the smallest genome that will keep a bacterium alive – and tidy up evolution's sloppy work
We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine
9 April 2014
A neuroscientist and a musician explain how they built the Brain Stethoscope, which is both brain scanner and musical instrument
Joined-up research will star in Wellcome's new project
1 April 2014
Wellcome Trust puts faith – and cash – in interdisciplinary research as it unveils a £17.5 million London development called The Hub
