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

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

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

How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...

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

is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He is also chair ...

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 ...

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his friend Adam Smith agreed that modern humans were vain creatures, ceaselessly adjusting and masking themselves to gain the favour of others. However, as this short ...

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

In the animated documentary The Waiting, Karen Lips, professor of biology at University of Maryland, College Park, chronicles a mysterious mass disappearance she encountered across two field studies ...