Issue 10: Fact & Fiction

A word from the Editors-in-Chief and some enlightening insights from this Issue's Cover Illustrator

Move over nature, is artificial intelligence the new apex predator of protein evolution?

From Plato to quantum mechanics, Edmond muses whether objective facts truly exist — or if reality depends on who's observing it.

Madeleine argues its time to rewrite the landscape of climate fiction from one of impending doom into one of hope and action.

A flying Stegosaurus, upside-down Hallucigenias: Kaya revisits palaeontology's most delightfully bizarre mistakes.

Isaac examines how different cultures have attempted to answer the same timeless question: how does the human body truly work?

Where does reality exist: in the world, or in our mind? Terra probes how the brain blurs the boundaries of perception and experience.

Beyond mere educated guesses, precision in scientific prediction is paving the way forward in genomic innovation.

Cultivating curiosity in children is not only considerate, but fundamentally scientific, Kacy posits.

Jason unlocks how biobanks are helping researchers probe new insights into human health and disease.

From dating podcasts to TikTok algorithms: how science on sex differences is simplified, sensationalised, and sold.

If time is relative, bending the bounds of physics and reality, Zahra considers how far-fetched the notion of time-travel really is.

As AI blurs the line between truth and deception, Vanessa considers how it is changing the way we see the world.

Elva repels the theory that our magnetic pull towards the trope of "opposites attract" is founded in science.

Vaccines save lives — but as Kara explores, misinformation can undermine them just as powerfully.