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Antisocial is a deep dive into the extremist views.

An unexpectedly revealing find in Mongolia solves a longstanding riddle.

As a doctor, I am reminded every day of the fragility of the human body, how closely mortality lurks just around the corner.

Iranian Tolkien scholar finds intriguing parallels between subcontinental geography and famous map of Middle-earth.

Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.

Giant Christmas image took 80 miles and nine hours to make

The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.

Penguin poop and climate change are fuelling the spread of ‘snow algae’ down the Antarctic Peninsula

Just before I turned 60, I discovered that sharing my story by drawing could be an effective way to both alleviate my symptoms and combat that stigma.

In the village of Kongthong, villagers don’t call each other by their name; instead, they call out using unique, bespoke tunes that resemble birdsong.

The pandemic has given us an early glimpse at how truly disruptive the fourth industrial revolution may be, and the measures we’ll need to support human dignity.

Artist, “bird noticer”, and concerned citizen of the digital state of the world Jenny Odell looks at many different ways of resisting the attention economy, sinking into the reality of our lives, and finding solidarity and agency with others.

Project to map global ‘species richness’ highlights the variety of biodiversity itself

The current focus on the Chinese and Jews is nothing new.

Having lots of kids is great for the success of the species. But there’s a hitch.

“It’s not always about agreement, more often it’s about business.”

Playing and being creative shouldn’t stop when you grow up.

Determining whether human nature is short-sighted when it comes to survival-necessary situations

A new device shows promising results in its ability to convert CO2 and water into useful fuels.

Life forms on Earth are wildly varied, but scientists discover a single formula that predicts every one’s life cycle.

We’re Earth’s first intelligent, technologically advanced civilization. But maybe not the last. For most of our planet’s history, life in some form has existed on our world. Planet Earth formed some […]

Ever had trouble finding reason to get out of bed? Marcus Aurelius has some advice for you.

We’ve known this virus was coming. We just didn’t do anything about it.

The British capital’s love affair with buckets and nuggets, explained

Glenn Albrecht has ideas about how to cope with the effects of a changing world: Invent a new language.

In general, birds of a feather do tend to flock together.

Here’s why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.

Humans blame cats for killing birds, but our buildings are far worse.

The German island of Riems is home to some of the most dangerous virology research on the planet.

There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]