An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time ...

The weird paradox of Schrödinger’s cat has found a lasting popularity. What does it mean for the future of quantum physics?

After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?

That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by Carl Sagan. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech But what, exactly, should we make of ...

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really?

When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?

Watch as two craftspeople use 19th-century methods and tools to turn a tree on Norway’s coast into a rowing boat ...

Is it wicked to take a pleasure in spring?’ George Orwell’s postwar ode to the toad offers a message ripe for our times ...

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

In the aftermath of a head injury, Nick’s mind is split between his old self and a strange new self he doesn’t know ...

Meet Sammy Squitten, the baby squirrel suckled by a cat and raised by a human, in this story narrated by David Attenborough ...