Culture Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland argues that all reality is relative The author uses relational quantum physics to insist nothing we see and experience actually exists. By Michael Brooks
Books The hawking of Stephen: is Brief Answers to the Big Questions more spin than science? By Michael Brooks
A century ago, the Spanish flu killed 100 million people. Is a new pandemic on the way? Our leaders need to act like the outbreak has already started – because for all we know it may… By Michael Brooks
Sweet death: how the sugar industry created a global crisis Our modern addiction to sugar is killing us – and it may be too late to stop it. By Michael Brooks
Has this physicist found the key to reality? Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve discovered that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete. So what… By Michael Brooks
Back to the future – mankind’s new ideas that aren’t new at all Rethink: the Surprising History of New Ideas by Steven Poole reviewed. By Michael Brooks
The best defence against Alzheimer’s Spoiler: the best way to avoid Alzheimer's is to stay young. By Michael Brooks
Mosquitoes on the march: how zika will spread across Europe The saving grace for Europe and North America will be their relative affluence and greater levels of education. By Michael Brooks
Zapping your own brain to treat depression? Surely it’s too good to be true How neurostimulation fooled us all – and why the field needs to take a hard look at its methods in… By Michael Brooks
How the hunt for black holes causes a rift in physics Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space shows how rivalries developed during the fraught search for gravitational revenge. By Michael Brooks