We are currently facing the biggest crisis in the entirety of human history. It’s called global warming, and on Monday 11 November, last Monday, the warming rose to 1.54 degrees Celsius.

What do the structure of our DNA, stock market trends and the architecture of ancient Hindu temples have in common, you may ask. Well, they all contain repeating, self-similar patterns, which are also known as fractals.

A brief introduction to the wacky world of gender bending plants and animals.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that, through just being predicted, causes itself to be true. The term was first used by Robert K Merton in 1948 – he defined it as to describe ‘a false definition of the situation, evoking a behaviour which makes the originally false conception true’. This means that our psychological responses to fears about the future actually have the power to make a false reality become true.

Conformity is defined as an individual changing attitudes to align with a social group or network. Conformity towards groups can be observed frequently in everyday life, from the way our behaviour adjusts appropriately to different social groups, to our beliefs and judgments. But why do we conform? Are we always aware that we are conforming? And to what extent are we influenced by the people around us that it changes the way we view ourselves?