Why the stunning rhinoceros hornbills are the farmers of the rainforest and a powerful avian symbol of regeneration ...

What is a German museum doing with a Kikuyu artefact it doesn’t know anything about? A journey to Kenya for some answers ...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities ...

The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

In a town park in Portugal, prizes dangle just out of reach up a greasy pole. How will the local teens manage to get them?

Two women – one aged 35, the other 102 – become friends. This is what the road trip they can’t take would look like ...

Existing as a Chinese enclave within British Hong Kong for roughly a century, in the 1980s Kowloon Walled City was considered the most densely populated place on Earth. Built 14 storeys high and with ...

The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances. We can imagine living in a different world: ...

An update to Charles and Ray Eames’s film ‘Powers of Ten’ explores what we’ve learned about the Universe since 1977 ...

Plato once described the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope as ‘a Socrates gone mad!’ It’s a good comparison. Like Socrates, Diogenes gave the bird to respectable society. He undermined status and manners ...

is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the history of democratic thought and, especially, on early attempts to understand and theorise ...