According to Leibniz: ‘we can find no true or existent fact … without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not ...

Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

I fell for physics because it offered a sense of order. Now I now its deep insight is how to accept the messiness of life ...

For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric ...

Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves ...

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians ...

A few months ago, I sat in a packed university auditorium listening to a celebrated computer scientist explain the brilliance of large language models (LLMs). These systems optimise, he said. And they ...

Kasubi Hill, in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, is the resting place of four kings of Buganda – a centuries-old monarchy still central to the lives of the Baganda people. Their tombs are built from ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

At the Trail Dust Town theme park in Tucson, Arizona, visitors step out of their normal lives and into the city’s past. Or, more accurately, a funhouse mirror of the past that plays up the cowboy ...