From fluffing feathers to washing skins, a museum taxidermist shows the hidden art behind creating an ‘illusion of life’ ...

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world ...

Visually striking and intricately crafted, the traditional armour and weaponry of the Kiribati islands in the Pacific Ocean ...

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

In his short film Angles of Love, the UK-based artist and demographic scientist Vincent Straub asks friends, family and strangers the question: ‘What is love to you?’ Receiving an eclectic mix of ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...

It’s not just AI systems that raise questions about consciousness – the products of synthetic biology do too. In recent years, researchers have discovered how to grow cerebral organoids – ...

is professor of early modern British history at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She is the author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France (2023). Yet Descartes was not ...

In the 18th century, the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus set out to classify life, creating a system of taxonomy that still endures. But, as Firelei Báez – an artist from the Dominican Republic, based ...

‘I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extra-sensory perception … telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psycho-kinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual ...

Created to accompany an exhibition at the Computer History Museum in California, this nifty explainer from the video essayist Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown) helps to demystify how large language ...