Viruses are the tiniest creatures known to science, yet our entire planet is under their control. Every person is well aware of cold and flu viruses, but the...

In this book, the eminent Cambridge zoologist Arik Kershenbaum invites the reader to imagine alien life. However, in his fantasies, the scientist relies on D...

Francis Crick (1916–2004) is a British molecular biologist, one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

What are language borrowings? This topic undoubtedly concerns each of us. It is discussed in school, in textbooks, in scientific literature and on Internet f...

The action takes place in London in 1913. The author of the fashionable thriller “Miroslav Boyar” intrigues the audience with the statement that his supernat...

Is it possible to write a novel about the posthumous adventures of the heroes of Scandinavian myth? What does eternity look like from a pagan's point of view...

Founder of Russian science fiction I.A. Efremov was convinced that aliens should look just like us. However, even the maximum external similarity is not a gu...

Peter Godfrey-Smith (b. 1965) is an Australian marine biologist and philosopher of science and professor at the University of Sydney. His best-selling book, ...

In 1924, a courtesan named Caroline Crane disappears without a trace in London. The Norwegian psychoanalyst Sigmund Arneson is mysteriously connected with he...

In the mid-19th century, the Harvard Observatory began hiring women as calculators to interpret the results of nightly astronomical observations performed by...

How to distinguish living from non-living? Where is the border between them? At first glance, these are childish questions. And yet, for many centuries, scie...