Why the stunning rhinoceros hornbills are the farmers of the rainforest and a powerful avian symbol of regeneration ...

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities ...

In a town park in Portugal, prizes dangle just out of reach up a greasy pole. How will the local teens manage to get them?

What is a German museum doing with a Kikuyu artefact it doesn’t know anything about? A journey to Kenya for some answers ...

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 ...

Two women – one aged 35, the other 102 – become friends. This is what the road trip they can’t take would look like ...

Scientists and philosophers have long pondered the ethical implications of creating so-called ‘designer babies’. Today, the ability to choose certain genetic traits has, in many cases, become a ...

poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...

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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 ...

The American philosopher David Lewis is remembered for defending modal realism: the view that non-actual possible worlds are as real as the actual world. But among those who knew him, he was as well ...