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For centuries, we have been looking up to the sky to understand the mysteries that surround us. The sky might hold the answers to some of our deepest questions such as where we came from. But what do we know so far?

The Bright Night Sky

Is there life on Venus?

What were the Universe's dark ages?

Does dark matter really matter?

Are we missing a planet in our solar system?

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Unconscious Mind

The unconscious mind is a vast unmapped territory of feelings, thoughts, urges and memories that sit just outside our awareness. Luckily, our intrepid Garden Fellows are at the forefront of exploring it, and they're taking you with them on the journey.

The Unconscious Mind

What happens to your body under stress?

How is the digital age transforming our response to stress?

What happens in the brain when you meditate?

Where do we go when we go to sleep?

Do you still have free will when your unconscious mind is in charge?

Does where you're from change how you dream?

Why does the mind create real symptoms in the absence of disease?

How can psychedelics help us understand consciousness?

Plants

Plants have long been cast as the backdrop to the brassier, noisier human and animal world. But new research is revealing another side of our botanical friends, and this time it's a starring role. What have they been up to while we were looking elsewhere?

The Secret Life of Plants

Why are flowers a biological mystery? 

How did fungi help create life as we know it?

Do plants have something to say?

Colour new

"In many respects, colour's greatest challenge is - like music - it resists most attempts to describe it. Colour might be one of those subjects that simply can't be written about." But that's not going to stop Dr. James Fox from trying!

The World According to Colour

What is colour?

Why do some cultures have no word for blue?

Why do we think white means pure?

How has modern science transformed colour?

Oceans new

Covering almost three-quarters of the Earth, our amazing oceans are vast, beautiful, scary and relatively unexplored.  This collection brings to the surface fascinating insights and stories across ocean science, conservation and culture.

Amazing Oceans

Where does the oxygen we breathe come from?

How did oceans shape human history?

What alien habitats exist on the bottom of the ocean? 

How does the ocean contribute to new drug development?

What is life like beneath the polar ice?

What does bioluminescence tell us about life in the ocean?

Why does the world need sharks?

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Take a wander through human imagination, creativity & the designed world around us

Art & Entertainment

Ask the knotty questions about knowledge, reality, existence, morality & what we believe

Philosophy & Religion

What is art?

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Examine the ties that bind us as communities and the customs & structures we create 

Society & Politics

Investigate the most exciting applications of the cutting edge of research & thinking

Technology

Is social media today's central battlefield?

Fireside Chat

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Journey through the natural world and the experiments & observations that illuminate it

Science & Nature

Food Futures: Could new plants solve a food crisis?

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Immerse yourself in the world of words, written & spoken, from mythology to the media

Literature & Language

Delve into what drives us as humans, from communication & memory to thought & emotion

Psychology & Behaviour

How do languages evolve?

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Focus your attention inwards to one of the most complex systems of all: the human body

Human Biology & Medicine

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