The life-saving medicines inspired by animals
The latest technology allows us to look for potential medicines in the natural world without collecting or harming a single animal – all you need is their DNA.
8 May 2020
Turning carbon emissions into plastic
Not only would this reduce the amount of fossil fuels we use, it would have an impact on climate change, lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
15 September 2019
Why the Arctic is smouldering
We know the Arctic is melting – but it’s also on fire. And these wildfires could transform the pace, and scope, of global warming in ways that could affect us all.
27 August 2019
The Untapped Potential of Medical CBD
Recreational CBD is booming, but what’s the holdup with its medical uses?
23 August 2019
Psilocybin Is Headed for the Mainstream — It’s Bringing the Problems of Big Pharma With It
The psychedelic community is torn over the growing interest in developing medical versions of a drug that may even help treatment-resistant depression
12 August 2019
Psilocybin Could Open the Door to Legal Hallucinogens
Researchers are hoping the decriminalization vote in Denver could usher in a new era of therapeutic and recreational use
28 May 2019
Is Kambo Really the Next Wellness Trend?
Devotees say the gooey secretion scraped off a frog’s back can cure everything from acne to cancer. Could there be something to the hype?
8 May 2019
Cradle to cradle: our zero-waste future
Why designing things to breakdown is a good thing
2 May 2019
Extinction Rebellion shut down parts of London – and brought much-needed attention to climate change
If the job of the protester is to get an issue onto the public agenda, and to hopefully shift the general understanding of what is possible – and what is essential – then they have done their job.
27 April 2019
Elbow grease and tech: fighting the plastic crisis
A new old-fashioned solution to the plastic crisis
20 April 2019
The truth about animal grief
Why we need to change how we talk about how animals grieve
1 February 2019
The Haptic Baton
How do you play in an orchestra if you are visually impaired?
15 January 2019
Can captive animals ever truly return to the wild?
For some species, the road to release is a long one.
21 December 2018
The rise and rise of ketamine
Shaking off its reputation as a nasty club drug, K is being shown to have instant success treating depression
21 December 2018
The technology fighting poachers
Poachers and criminal networks continue to drive endangered species towards extinction – but with the help of groundbreaking tech, authorities are fighting back.
18 December 2018
The loudest voice in the animal kingdom
Uncovering the remarkable and mysterious audio world of dolphins and whales.
5 November 2018
DMT Is the Drug for Our Collective Crisis of Meaning
It’s increasingly popular and there’s a good reason why
30 October 2018
Did Neanderthals learn to make fire before us?
If you found yourself empty handed in a forest, out on the savannah, or up on a mountain, would you be able to start a fire just with the rocks, soil and wood around you?
21 September 2018
How a pregnancy test caused a catastrophe for frogs
By the time we realised what was happening, it was too late.
23 August 2018
Saving Coral
The question is not if we can save the coral reefs, but if we choose to.
3 August 2018
Snapping death worms can hide undetected for years
Good bait comes to worms who wait...
24 July 2018
Why the cost of equality is a lot lower than we thought
It has taken 38 years to change two words in the Canadian national anthem – two significant words but why did this cause such outrage?
4 May 2018
The End of Hangovers
Leave it to the Brits to invent a synthetic alcohol that gets you properly pickled and doesn’t make you feel poisoned.
21 December 2017
Documenting the dangerous and the ephemeral
It is unsurprising that drugs that have shaped such vast cultural movements have lately become the focus for a range of documentaries, from the spectacular to the truly awful.
19 December 2017
The fish that change sex
Male to female, female to male, and back and forth. Fish are the sex changing masters of the animal kingdom.
29 November 2017
Hot Digital Shaman: New App Wavepaths Guides Users Through Therapeutic Trips
Brian Eno teamed up with neuroscientist Mendel Kaelen to create an app for therapeutic music – and it ended up expanding both their minds
8 November 2017
The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band @ The Barbican
From destroying The Daily Mail to setting Article 50 to music, The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band turn referendum blues into a show-stopping extravaganza.
27 October 2017
It’s not a load of crap: turn your urine and faeces into treasure
Don’t wait for astronauts to show us how to recycle bodily waste into useful products. Here’s how you can extract value from your own liquid assets now
25 August 2017
We Asked Straight Edge Adults What Kept Them Sober
By most accounts of people I spoke with, the majority of the original punk sXers dropped out in their 30s—but a committed handful are still sober. Here's what keeps them going.
16 August 2017
Millennials’ Sobriety Isn’t What It Seems
They’re avoiding many of the substances that got earlier generations high. But are they better off?
29 June 2017