Sciences

In brief

When the last individual of a species draws its last breath, that doesn't have to be the end of the story.

All living beings stop growing at some point. The global economy is different: it just keeps growing. Is a world without economic growth possible and what might that mean for the future?

All the great scientists have tried to come up with a theory of everything. All have failed.

We cannot escape our fate and we cannot escape ourselves. But we also have our limits: confused thinking, misleading intuitions, unrealiable memories... What consequences do these potential errors have on our relationship to the world and to ourselves? Just how far can we trust ourselves?

With the legal framework of space exploration and the exploitation of its resources still unclear, is space being stolen from us?

What would happen to our bodies if we were all suddenly exposed to weightlessness in space?

If I borrow 500,000 euros from the bank, then the bank creates this money out of thin air. What's the catch?

Black holes can tell us a lot about the universe. But could they hold the key to understanding our world? 

What's the recipe for making a song a global hit?

Every day human beings make around 200 decisions about what to eat. But what drives these choices?