Death of the calorie
For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure
For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure
A new exhibition sheds light on the most important star in our galaxy
Almost every year since 1972 has contained a 61-second minute. In this podcast Tom Whipple joins Matthew Sweet to discuss where these “leap seconds” come from and why we should be worried about them
It may seem minuscule, but a row over a missing second could cause chaos in financial markets and deprive Britain of its position at the centre of the world’s time. Tom Whipple investigates
The International Space Station is the greatest example of architecture beyond Earth – but would you want to live in it?
How the most luminous, distant and powerful objects in the universe help us navigate our own planet
Helen Gordon joins Matthew Sweet to discuss why our geological age is dividing scientists, and how she time-travelled with the help of some ancient ice
What does the Pacific have that the Atlantic doesn’t? Earthquakes. Why? Plate tectonics
The architecture of Buckminster Fuller was unlikely inspiration for Donald Ingber
Is humanity’s impact on its environment enough to usher in a new geological era: the Anthropocene?
