Â鶹´«Ã½

Features

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

woman in hoodie

Health

Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer

Longevity research is no longer aimed at prolonging lives, it is trying to keep us fit right until the end. New anti-ageing drugs may finally be here to make that happen

Features
grazing fish

Environment

Reef halo riddle: What’s behind the mysterious rings around coral?

Features
figure in sea

Earth

Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society

Features

Health

Protein mania: The problem with the West’s latest diet obsession

Features

Physics

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

Features

Space

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Features

Life

The forgotten riches of the most densely biodiverse country on Earth

Features
female in lab

Humans

The science skills most in demand

Features
hand artwork

Life

We contain microbes so deeply weird they alter the very tree of life

Features
arrows

Mind

It’s not an illusion, you have free will. It’s just not what you think

The idea that free will doesn't exist is based on misguided intuitions of what it means to be a biological machine, as a famous insect, the digger wasp, reveals

Features

Earth

The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why

Features

Health

The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind

Features

Health

Move over, DNA. Life’s other code is more subtle and far more powerful

Features

Life

Crime-fighting botanist takes down murderers using plants

Features