In the aftermath of a head injury, Nick’s mind is split between his old self and a strange new self he doesn’t know ...

When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates shared a theory of love from the teachings of a ‘non-Athenian woman’. Who was she really?

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Condemned to death by firing squad, French resistance fighters put pen to paper. Their dying words can teach us how to live ...

Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans ...

Is it wicked to take a pleasure in spring?’ George Orwell’s postwar ode to the toad offers a message ripe for our times ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities ...

Meet Sammy Squitten, the baby squirrel suckled by a cat and raised by a human, in this story narrated by David Attenborough ...

Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and ...

When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think A false-colour depiction of the Occator crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, ...