South African filmmaker Nico Scheepers walks away with the festival’s top prize thanks to Do You Believe in Angels, Mr.

As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...

Mike Bell was 53 when he got the diagnosis that changed his life – and 61 when he learned it was wrong. He felt relieved, but also totally adrift ...

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A reader finds it pathetic that so many Scots want ‘anyone but England’ to win the World Cup ...

Renfrewshire farmer and poet Jim Carruth has won the Adult Short Story category of the Neil Gunn Writing Competition with his work Leavin Eden.

We just now learned that a celeb like Kendall Jenner actually uses an unofficial books consultant. Specifically an unofficial books consultant named Ashlea Gonzalez, whose job it is to curate hot, new ...

Uncovering ELIZA’s source code reveals hidden lessons ...

Maybe you’ve heard that our country has a big anniversary this month: 250 years since we broke from the Brits. I have an Independence Day anniversary of sorts, too. Thirty years ago, on July 4, 1996, ...

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This untitled and undated piece may well be the last complete unpublished short story by Vladimir Nabokov. It was probably written and rough-sanded in the summer of 1926, when Nabokov read the prose ...