Steven Poole

At 350ft tall, Godzilla would collapse under its own weight. But with two giant legs and a tiny body, it would be eminently feasible

Size matters

1 July 2017 9:00 am

Trust scientists to ruin all our fun. The spectacularly beautiful 2014 film reboot of Godzilla, it turns out, is anatomically…

A computer illustration of people in cryogenic pods

No end in sight

14 April 2017 11:00 pm

Are you a deathist? A deathist is someone who accepts the fact of death, who thinks the ongoing massacre of…

Nothing matters very much

11 March 2017 9:00 am

Nothing will come of nothing, said Lear, because he wasn’t familiar with quantum physics. According to our current best theories,…

Nothing matters very much

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

Nothing will come of nothing, said Lear, because he wasn’t familiar with quantum physics. According to our current best theories,…

When reasoning goes wrong

3 December 2016 9:00 am

It’s the intellectual bromance of the last century. Two psychologists — Danny, a Holocaust kid and adviser to the Israel…

A puzzling phenomenon

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Everyone has played it, or one of its manifold variations and rip-offs. Blocks of different shapes fall from the sky;…

Tomorrow’s world

3 September 2016 9:00 am

It may be difficult to believe when you think of Donald Trump, but the age of super-humans is almost upon…