I fell for physics because it offered a sense of order. Now I now its deep insight is how to accept the messiness of life ...

According to Leibniz: ‘we can find no true or existent fact … without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not ...

Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves ...

Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric ...

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians ...

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Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must defy gravity ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...