Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths
The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of…
Physics
Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer
Are shark attacks and ice cream sales linked? Do drugs work? Being able to distinguish…
Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How…
Neutrinos may explain why we don’t live in an antimatter universe
By Leah Crane A conceptual image of neutrinosMehau Kulyk/Science Photo Library We are getting closer…
We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality…
Baffling 500-page ABC maths proof to be published after eight-year row
By Donna Lu It’s not this simpleYAY Media AS/Alamy After a saga eight years in…
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves…
We now know what causes wine ‘legs’ to drip down inside a glass
By Layal Liverpool Wine ‘legs’ are caused by a shockwave in your wineglassGilaxia/Getty Images The…
Even a computer the size of the universe can’t predict everything
A black hole and a jet of hot gasNASA/JPL-Caltech Fundamental limits on the smallest possible…
How a new twist on quantum theory could solve its biggest mystery
The “wave function collapse” transforms vague clouds of quantum possibilities into the physical reality we…