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 ...

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

Since Plato, a dominant strain of Western philosophy has understood human beings primarily as rational thinkers, a view typified by René Descartes’s conclusion: cogito ergo sum (‘I think, therefore I ...

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 ...

For the vast majority of human history, we’ve relied on the Sun to tell time – a reliably unreliable method, given the body’s tendency to disappear behind clouds and the horizon. This animation from ...

Commissioned as a summer home for a wealthy Pittsburgh department store owner, Fallingwater (1935-38) is often considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. This video by the YouTube channel Open Space ...

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 ...

Some people want to blame individualism for everything. Politicians argue that it has replaced the common good, religious people that it is displacing faith in God, mental health advocates that it has ...

Mario Krenn has a unique job in the field of physics. As the research group leader at the Artificial Scientist Lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, he builds ...

‘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 ...