What does it mean to be Mexican? Meet the artist who forged Mexico’s identity in the brushstrokes of his landscape paintings ...

Interpreting the emotional lives of animals requires a subtler and more nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism ...

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

Is consciousness like jazz, something hard to pin down? Or is it more like the biology of dolphins, odd but natural?

Photos and journal entrees chronicle Michael C Rockefeller’s fateful 1961 journey to New Guinea in search of local art ...

Can a Tibetan singer make the leap from the slow pace of life on the Tibetan plateau to the fast rhythms of urban Beijing?

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

What is it about lulls in conversation that make them so very uncomfortable? It has to do with how we connect with each other ...