To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness ...

Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

What is it about lulls in conversation that make them so very uncomfortable? It has to do with how we connect with each other ...

is an art historian, specialising in scientific imaginaries. She is the author of Voir l’invisible: Histoire visuelle du mouvement merveilleux-scientifique (2023), and her current research focuses on ...

is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, and is additionally affiliated with the Department of African American Studies, at Princeton University in New Jersey, US. When I ...