An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains ...

More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which ...

After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm ...

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...

Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it?

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...