In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world ...

An ode to life on the road. Irish Travellers at a gathering in County Galway share memories, songs and crafts by the fire ...

What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question ...

In the wake of Second World War, the French existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus were close friends. They drank and argued together, often spending long nights out on the town. All around ...

‘Philosophy is dead,’ Stephen Hawking once declared, because it ‘has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.’ It is scientists, not philosophers, who are now ‘the ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated the world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, humanity let out a collective sigh, recognising the loss of an essential human territory to the onslaught of ...

If you tied a rope tight around the Earth’s equator and then added a single yard of slack, would the extra material make any noticeable difference to someone standing on the ground? Yes, actually. The ...

Education is crucial to a democratic society because it is how we ensure that future citizens will have the knowledge and skills our societies need. In countries such as the United States, the United ...

How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities ...

Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift ...

When CoRy developed chronic illnesses as an adult, he moved in with his dad. Through mutual care, their bond has ‘blossomed’ ...

This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken ...