- The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Man - Andrew McDonald
- The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy
- How do governments create money out of thin air? - Jonathan Smith
- The most notorious scientific feud in history - Lukas Rieppel
- History's deadliest king - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
- Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al
- The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
- Real-life "Alien" jaws - Darien Satterfield
- How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis - Iseult Gillespie
- Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? - Shravan S K
- These salamanders snack on each other (but don't die) - Luis Zambrano