Which scientific discovery do you find the most mind-blowing to think about?

Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins revealed the structure that underpins every living thing. It launched modern genetics and made everything from forensics to gene therapy possible.

Hubble's observation that galaxies are moving apart led us to the Big Bang and a universe with a beginning. The idea that space itself is stretching still feels deeply strange.

Particles can be linked so that measuring one instantly affects the other, no matter the distance. It now underpins quantum computing and unbreakable encryption.

A single elegant mechanism explains the staggering diversity of life on Earth. It reshaped biology, medicine and our understanding of what it means to be human.

Predicted by Peter Higgs in 1964 and confirmed at CERN in 2012, it completed the Standard Model. Without it, atoms — and you — wouldn't hold together.