An intricate system of roads connected the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire, which at its height in the 2nd century CE spanned modern-day Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and England. A collaboration ...

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity ...

Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes ...

I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea ...

At the turn of the 20th century, two Swedish sisters – Ingeborg and Gunborg Elfving – dreamt of an existence free from male oppression. In her will, Gunborg requested that a house be built in their ...

poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...

It’s not just AI systems that raise questions about consciousness – the products of synthetic biology do too. In recent years, researchers have discovered how to grow cerebral organoids – ...

is professor and personal chair in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in in Scotland, UK. He has published many articles and books on the ethics of suicide, assisted dying, and suicide ...

(1976-2024) was professor of business ethics and the philosophy of artificial intelligence at San José State University, and visiting professor of Indian philosophy of mind and knowledge at University ...

Created to accompany an exhibition at the Computer History Museum in California, this nifty explainer from the video essayist Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown) helps to demystify how large language ...

In his ongoing Children’s Games series, the Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist Francis Al s documents the diverse games children play across the globe. In this instalment from the streets of Havana, ...