The Week the World Almost Ended

As tensions rise around North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric, a look back at the time during the Reagan Presidency when a misunderstanding nearly led to nuclear apocalypse.

The Coldest Case

The investigation into the strange case of Eugene Mallove, a fervent believer in cold fusion, something he hoped would revolutionise nuclear energy.

Why Earth’s History Appears So Miraculous

An ambitious piece looking at observer selection effect – where a data set’s composition or properties are correlated with the very existence of its observer. The first example the piece calls on is an analysis of planes returning from WWII bombing raids with the goal of identifying which areas of the fuselage to reinforce, but it rapidly expands in scope to extinction events for our world, and our universe.