An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition For ...

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

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 ...

When the bomb exploded, I was at a café outside Oslo reading on my phone. It was a gloomy Friday afternoon, 22 July 2011, 3:25pm. The news was filled with reports that Norway’s high-rise government ...

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus ...

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

Essays and videos on how humans construct a sense of self with and against technology, from analogue tools to advances in AI.

But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself When did stories become so centred on good battling evil?

Essays and videos on ageing and death, exploring mortality, loss and growing old through personal narratives, philosophy and ...

Essays and videos on illness and disease, exploring ill health through science, personal narratives, history, sociology and ...

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