Science, Mathematics & Technology

Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People ha...

Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can weigh the earth? Or wanted to reach the edge of the universe? Uncov...

In these brilliant essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways i...

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...

Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that...

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the comput...

Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences...

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind...

In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has...

Are we alone in the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there are stars in the sky? It's one of the most important and fascin...

The controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics. For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational ind...

We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs--Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos--are seduced by the...

Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely man...

Developing video games--hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be mo...

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion,...

Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding...

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Ch...

Is there a God? How did it all begin? Can we predict the future? What is inside a black hole? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Will...

Have you ever wondered what makes a kite fly or a boat float? Have you ever thought about why snowflakes are symmetrical, or why golf balls have di...

In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European par...

Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking...

On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century....

This is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist Georg...

Why cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for business, and how business users can best take advantage of cloud services. Most of the informa...

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world cons...

How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of com...

A compact and accessible history, from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. Th...

Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans - plea...

A concise introduction to crowdsourcing that goes beyond social media buzzwords to explain what crowdsourcing really is and how it works. Ever sinc...

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 percent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzl...

Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining be...

Virtual Reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now Virtual Reality is a reality: those big headsets that make people...

When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was ...

The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addict...

Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbe...

Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating sys...

Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusi...

With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly update...

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and g...

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory sti...

A concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolin...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, provin...

This is the story of how humankind has come to its understanding of the bizarre world of symmetry - a subject of fundamental significance to the wa...

What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and tho...

An accessible introduction to the history, fundamental concepts, challenges, and controversies of the fMRI by one of the pioneers in the field. The...

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics a...