SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world’s first gaming computer
A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966
January 2024
Prince Andrew, Clinton, Hawking: what do the Epstein documents say about key people?
Michael Jackson and David Copperfield also among well-known people mentioned in released court records
December 2023
From Piketty’s Capital to Hawking’s The Theory of Everything: can one book explain it all?
Millennia-spanning takes on history, evolution and economics are booming. But who buys these ‘grand theory’ books? And do they actually read them?
August 2023
New Stephen Hawking children’s book to be published next year
You and the Universe, adapted from his posthumous 2020 Earth Day message, will bring the late physicist’s ‘extraordinary work to life for readers of all ages’
April 2023
We need a much more intelligent approach to the rise of AI
Letters: Readers respond to Larry Elliott’s article about the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace
March 2023
Digested week
Digested week: while Jon Snow enjoys late parenthood, I’m in survival mode
John Crace
A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
October 2022
The Audio Long Read
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? – podcast
A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right? By Oliver Burkeman
March 2022
‘Quantum hair’ could resolve Hawking’s black hole paradox, say scientists
New mathematical formulation means huge paradigm shift in physics would not be necessary
February 2022
Notebook
Why not re-erect the statue of Edward Colston and topple it once a year?
Tim Adams
Stephen Hawking exhibition hopes to unravel the mysteries of his blackboard
October 2021
Notebook
What’s our message to outer space? We are not so brilliant here on Earth
Rowan Moore
The prize-winning poetry of the Azerbaijani president’s daughter and the Dubai Expo both lack inspiration
September 2021
TV review
Hawking: Can You Hear Me? review – a startling, harrowing look at Stephen’s secret life
TV tonight
TV tonight: Martin Clunes in a true-crime drama about a case that haunted the Met
June 2021
Books that made me
Ben Macintyre: ‘I wish I’d written The Great Gatsby. Doesn’t everyone?’
The author and journalist on his two unopened copies of Stephen Hawking’s great work and not getting on with Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy
May 2021
Stephen Hawking’s office and archive gifted to UK to settle tax bill
Scientist’s treasure trove and personal objects to go to Science Museum and Cambridge University Library
April 2021
The long read
The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
The long read: A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?
November 2020
Best books of 2020
Best science books of 2020
Tidy bedrooms, how to deal with future pandemics, the human side to Stephen Hawking and pictures in the sand
September 2020
Book of the day
Stephen Hawking by Leonard Mlodinow review – a memoir of friendship
Hawking’s collaborator retells his story with humour and fondness, and helps us know the famous scientist as he really was
April 2020
TV tonight
TV tonight: Joe Lycett, comic and consumer champ, is back on the case
Find out why the comedian changed his name and follow his consumer crusade. Plus Graham Norton’s chat show is back in a fun lockdown format
