Research articles

Gandhi and Sakharov set us an inspiring example for the twenty-first century

…Kant is connected to Abel, Abel's connected to Maxwell …

If we live long enough, will we all become demented?

Ink-blot tests might be able to tell us more about creativity than personality.

Scientists who scoff at religious belief miss the point and damage their cause.

William Harvey spent a lifetime searching for the earliest moments of life.

Every living thing obeys the rules of scaling discovered by Max Kleiber.

The vigour of every discipline depends on people of broad vision.

To truly understand ageing, we must look beyond the diseases of old age.

Why a brilliantly conceived research programme failed.

The best environmental policy depends on how you frame the question.

Three wave singularities from the miraculous 1830s.

The tortuous path from skull measurements to theories of racial superiority.

Nuclear weapons stockpiles still represent the biggest threat to civilization.

A bumper crop of physical discoveries — something in the (heavy) water?

An ancient theory about nerves proved surprisingly hard to dislodge.

… or how the Iliad inspired a renaissance scholar to show how flies are made.

Nineteenth-century physicists couldn't agree about the speed of light.

Few would have laid money on cells generating energy with proton pumps.

Basic research and technological application are moving closer together.