Prediction markets, which hit record trade volume in 2025, may not only be forecasting the future but manipulating it. As the market continues to boom, Ayesha A. Siddiqi considers the impact of uncertainty, crises, and politics being turned into tradeable assets.

Playing Project Zomboid, one can be a risk-taker or a survivalist. Considering the zombie apocalypse game through a Thoreauvian lens, Will Wiles asks what it means to stay alive when death is inevitable.  

What can Kleinian psychoanalysis teach us about the recent spate of race riots in the UK? Emily Steer investigates the paranoid-schizoid position of the far right. 

Scent, both potent and imperceptible, constructs environments that invisibly influence our behaviour. Billie Muraben meets artist Racheal Crowther to discuss her upcoming show Liquid Trust, which exposes smell as intoxicant, control mechanism and potential weapon. 

Masoud Golsorkhi traces what links the history of Microsoft Powerpoint, management consultancy and ancient Egyptian propaganda.

On the Indonesian island of Sumba, alive with water buffalo, surfers, and Sandalwood horses, Masoud Golsorkhi reports on the honeymooners drifting through its raw, wind-carved coasts. 

In Montreal, the 19th edition of the MOMENTA Art Biennale, an aerial view provides a key perspective over an art world mediated by technology and, perhaps, uncertain of where it stands.

In Lithuania, a giant Tony Soprano co-exists with crumbling post-Soviet architecture. At the installation Ferma by Gabija Grušaitė, Sofia Hallstrom asks: what can hoarding teach us about memory, resilience and transgenerational inheritance?

Drifting away from the African continent over 160 million years ago, Madagascar evolved in almost complete isolation, making it a vast petri dish of unparalleled biodiversity. Exploring the island by boat, helicopter and perilous trek, Masoud Golsorkhi reveals Madagascar’s animal and human histories.

In the Gulf of Chiriquí, blue-footed boobies and Halloween crabs help to make Islas Secas some of Panama’s most extravagantly wild isles. Nell Whittaker reports.