Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures ...

David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late brother ...

A jaunty song calls for greater appreciation of Indian wool, as imports undermine the livelihoods of local herders ...

Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective ...

How do you teach a child reverence for nature? This filmmaker takes his son on a search for the ever-changing snow line ...

This short captures Tim Bovard, the staff taxidermist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as he reflects on over five decades spent perfecting his craft. Sparked by a childhood ...

is assistant professor of Classics at Cornell University in Ithaca, US. She is working on a book titled Bad Readers and Ancient Rome. A 3rd-century Egyptian fragment of Sappho’s poetry from papyri ...

Current technology allows for radical memory enhancement: smartphones can­ record (and transcribe) every conversation, and wearable cameras ­can capture hours of first-person audiovisual recording. We ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people took up baking, others decided to get a dog; I chose to grow and observe slime mould. The study in my partner’s flat in Edinburgh became home to two cultures ...

is professor of early modern British history at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She is the author of The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France (2023). Yet Descartes was not ...