Sometimes the daily rigmarole of life gives us little time to contemplate big questions. And I mean really big questions. Like, how does consciousness work? What happens if you fall into a black hole?

The theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was renowned for his ability to explain complex concepts to a non-expert audience. He was at times, however, less adept when communicating with writers, as ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...