Stories by Hooke

Do cities have a land area? And a literal use of the Joy Division map

The Stethoscope

Arguing about species: Is it evidence, or ego?

Squishy Sentience

Claude Shannon: The Juggling Poet Who Gave Us the Information Age

A Science Journalist Foresees One Grand Explanation for the Universe

Richard Rorty: Life, Pragmatism, and Conversational Philosophy

Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Hummingbird's Frenzy

Synthetic Fabrics Inspired a Commercial Revolution

What makes maths beautiful?

Ravens attribute visual access to unseen competitors

Genomes of straight-tusked elephants

The Long, Weird Half-Life of Trinitite

The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets

The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

Blessed Plot: a diagram of the molecular structure of insulin from 1968

Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs [pdf]

It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do

The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (2009)

Living with nuclear waste means remembering on a different scale

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