The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them ...

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the once-thriving ancient Roman city under some 5 m of volcanic debris. With a dark irony, it was this ...

Should owning an idea be treated the same way as owning a physical object, or are these two forms of property rights ultimately incomparable? How should societies balance incentivising new ideas with ...

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 ...

In the lushly animated short film Baat Wahi Hai (It’s the Same Story), two traditional Indian storytellers present their own versions of a millennia-old Hindu myth. The Indian filmmaker Nina Sabnani ...

Preteen sisters Peyton and Lyla represent a growing number of children who, with the help and encouragement of their parents, are trying to leverage a social media presence into income. For the two, ...

Created to accompany an exhibition at the Computer History Museum in California, this nifty explainer from the video essayist Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown) helps to demystify how large language ...

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...

The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances. We can imagine living in a different world: ...

is an associate professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College in New York. She teaches and writes in the areas of feminist bioethics, neuroethics, social and political philosophy, and moral psychology.

A man knows he should speak up about the sexist behaviour of his coworkers, but doesn’t, because they’re his friends and he doesn’t want to make it awkward. A tenured professor is bothered by her ...

is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the history of democratic thought and, especially, on early attempts to understand and theorise ...