World Earth Day 2025: The Earth Has a Fever
This year marks the 55th anniversary of World Earth Day, and much has changed in our relationship with nature over that time.
Max Schellekens
From science fiction to science fact: how real is Star Wars?
What from Star Wars remains fiction, and what has become reality?
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A can of cola and a camera: anything for a few views?
With nothing more than a can of soda, a coconut, and a camera, an American vlogger Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov boarded a boat headed for North Sentinel.
Koert van Mensvoort
Animal-friendly foie gras: one bite at a time
Animal rights organizations have been campaigning for years to ban foie gras. Foie gras is made from the liver of force-fed geese or ducks.
Max Schellekens
Who’s coming to Signal?
We rely on digital platforms daily—to communicate, search, and make payments. But that trust is beginning to falter.
Silke Bertens
Robot Zoo: Technology in the Wild
Animals and humans have always influenced each other. Now, technology adds a fresh twist.
Silke Bertens
Plastic insects: from waste to new nature
Henk Loorbach brings technology and nature together by transforming plastic waste into detailed plastic insects, giving discarded materials a new purpose.
Silke Bertens
A pandemic from the lab? The question we’d rather not ask
For centuries, we have viewed pandemics as natural disasters—unpredictable events that simply happen to us.
Koert van Mensvoort
Welcome to the future of nightlife
Music and technology are merging, reshaping the way we connect and interact. Virtual reality is no longer just a nice gadget—it’s a new frontier for nightlife
Elena De Pasquali
Bringing the mammoth back with baby steps
American scientists have injected a mouse with mammoth DNA, resulting in the creation of a completely new species: the mammoth-mouse.
Max Schellekens