Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move ...

English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the top right of the video player. Set in the windswept hills of rural Iran, the short documentary Sarnevesht (Daughter) ...

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons ...

The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress ...

Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today?

From weapon to icon – a riveting history lesson in the many meanings of the samurai sword that’s also just plain cool to see ...

About 2 billion years ago, evolution performed an improbable experiment. A larger ancestral cell engulfed a smaller bacterium. It should have been a meal. Instead, it became a merger. The bacterium ...

This brief animated visualisation tracks the evolution of Paris from its origins as a fishing village settled by a Celtic tribe, the Parisii, on a small island in the Seine River, to the year 2025.

South Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, or ‘India’ in its pre-nation-state meaning, boasts a remarkable diversity in ethnicities, cultures and languages. For more than two centuries, scholars and ...