The three generations of scientists dedicated to knowing a small sliver of Earth, one flower and one hummingbird at a time ...

As the hearing parent of a deaf baby, I’m confronted with an agonising decision: should I give her an implant to help her ...

Often thought of as the defining masterpiece of Spanish Baroque painting, Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez is also one of the most unusual and widely debated royal portraits in the history of art ...

Physicists and philosophers today have formulated three opposing models that explain how laws work. Which is the best?

A small and exceptionally remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the British overseas territory of St Helena is famed for being the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last exile and death. However, as ...

is a PhD student in philosophy at Harvard University studying philosophy of science. She is also a professional fashion photographer, whose work has spanned from covering NYFW runways to editorial ...

is professor of biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. His latest book is The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory (2020), co-authored with Robert N Brandon.

Have you ever experienced an artwork that, in the moment, made only a minor impression, but days, months or even years later reverberated in a powerful way? In this video essay, Cormac Donnelly, a ...

C P Snow’s lecture ‘The Two Cultures’ (1959) argued that the perceived divide between scientists and literary scholars is narrower than commonly believed. They both fundamentally seek to understand ...

In her short film Now I’m in the Kitchen, the Chinese animator Yana Pan, who is now based in LA, offers viewers glimpses into her kitchen and mind as she depicts the stream-of-consciousness thoughts ...

is associate professor of South Asian history at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, US. She is the author of Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023). In April 1955, at a ...

In recent decades, GPS tracking initiatives have helped scientists to better understand the patterns and behaviours of migratory birds. This includes new insights into how populations have adapted and ...