Arts Review

Drama behind the scenes at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations is laid bare in a major theatrical production.

Clinical trials of the first oral contraceptive recalled in a bold theatre production.

Documentary reveals how Black US scholars shaped today’s mathematics community and provides hope for the future.

The psychological pressures of going into space might be as hard as the physical feat, a documentary reveals.

Professional pride and personal tragedy stymied ideas about how infections spread in the nineteenth century, suggests a show about maverick Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

The London museum is a treasure chest of medical specimens both fascinating and ghoulish — now with a renewed focus on questions about how its collections came to be.

Annual footage offers tantalizing glimpses inside the European Commission’s troubled flagship neuroscience programme.

The inventor of alternating current, motors and more is back — and this time, he sings.

Systemic racism, sexual harassment and institutional bias permeate a film about three female scientists, who have survived and thrived.

Maryam Mirzakhani, Fields medallist and Iranian national hero, is celebrated in an elegant documentary.

Spectacular alchemical scrolls record ideas of flux in times of massive upheaval — medical, social, economic and political. By Jennifer Rampling.

Radioactive fails to get under the physicist’s skin. By Georgina Ferry

The new uncanny valley, 50 years of Earth Day and the troubled future of elephants. Nicola Jones reports on what’s coming in 2020.

New gene-editing documentary showcases biology’s hottest tool — up to the point when things went awry. By Amy Maxmen