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 ...

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 ...

What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it ...

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

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

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

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals ...

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 ...