A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern?

Frontotemporal dementia is rare and ruthless. When it robbed Katie of her husband at 33, his story became her life’s work Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment ...

The weird paradox of Schrödinger’s cat has found a lasting popularity. What does it mean for the future of quantum physics?

A millennial and her centenarian friend take a unique road trip ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?

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

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?

For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society ...

‘Whose day isn’t gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?’ You might think of moths primarily as the pesky creatures that get drawn to your lamplight ...