Taking an expansive approach to storytelling, Broadcast combines art and science as a way of looking beyond the everyday. Lots of magazines build their editorial around art, but I can’t remember the last time I read a story about the shape of the periodic table, let alone one that successfully explains how that shape, “encodes the character of the quantum atom”. It’s mind-blowing stuff, but rendered in totally accessible, entertaining text that’s as fun as it is enlightening.
 
In this issue:

• Exploring the mysteries of ‘dark fungi’, the species that have so far eluded scientific identification
• How researching Neanderthals is helping in the search for extraterrestrial life
• The history of Adderall, by a one-time addict
• The arts organisation spending art-world money to achieve, “material change rather than symbolic statements”
• And how AI could be pointing the way to a new class of psychedelic-based antidepressants