A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must defy gravity ...

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric ...

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians ...

This semester, my students are learning about four polymaths who shaped Islamic science: al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi. Their circumstances could hardly have been more different: one ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...