The University of Colorado must continue to realize and invest in the teaching and study of the humanities for all students ...

A book that integrates philosophy, morality, history and enigmas — because the question of God spans all forms of knowledge.

Dr Amira El-Zein, scholar and poet at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., first encountered the work of Dr Seyyed Hossein Nasr as a young academic. Now recognised as one of the most influential ...

Abstract: A fascinating and yet under-explored question in the foundations of physical theory relates to the status of the distinction between constants of nature and constants of motion. A plausible ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Billions, perhaps trillions, of years from now, long after the sun has engulfed Earth, cosmologists expect the universe will end. Some wrestle with whether it is more likely to collapse under its ...

The Ancient Greek philosopher and geographer Anaximander, who was responsible for creating the very first map of the world. Credit: The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander, who was born in the third ...