Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty ...

Condemned to death by firing squad, French resistance fighters put pen to paper. Their dying words can teach us how to live ...

The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities Women from the El Tablon community with cuttings of native plants used to ...

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 ...