To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness ...

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

Freedom over death makes it possible for dying to more fully reflect our selves. And a shorter life sometimes is a better ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The powerful short documentary Blue Room observes individuals incarcerated in two prisons in the Pacific Northwest as they participate in an experimental programme that allows them to take in tranquil ...