Idea

The best reads from around the web this week, including how to measure multiple universes and scientific tips on making the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich.

Our descendants may one day live in colonies on the Moon or Mars. How will they be governed? Some are already trying to come up with a space-age constitution.

Our visions of the future are often influenced by science fiction. But are these brave new worlds creating problems for our descendants?

Would you eat meat fed on maggots? Raising pigs, chickens and fish on insect larvae could change the way we farm animals, says Nic Fleming.

Physicists rely on equations to understand the world, but could the Universe operate more like a computer program instead? Stephen Wolfram thinks so.

Helping a paralysed former street artist draw again inspired entrepreneur Mick Ebeling to tackle seemingly unsolvable problems.

An ambitious idea for giant orbiting homes in space is being resurrected by a think tank that predicted travelling to the Moon 30 years before it happened.

How do the best scientists solve life’s greatest mysteries? A Nobel Prize winner takes you inside his mind and explains why the key is imaginative play.