Ecstatic moves, magic moments – this animated short documentary details one basketball fan’s love of the arena’s big screen ...

Something curious happens in two people’s brains during supportive interactions. It could help explain their emotional power ...

We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling ...

Some people tune into bodily sensations while daydreaming, others don’t – with implications for anxiety, depression and ADHD ...

Surveying his life, Carl Jung reflects on the collective unconscious, his clash with Freud and humanity’s uncertain future ...

Far more than an evolutionary imperative, caregiving is a gateway to our deepest humanity, and may explain our intelligence ...

After fleeing war-torn Liberia, an outsider artist creates haunting portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands ...

Two puny words shoulder a substantial, if diffuse, philosophical outlook: as if. Epicurus was perhaps the first to put this unexceptional construction to good use. He felt that life was about ...

Intrusive thoughts about doing bad things are common, but for people with OCD they provoke deep fears about the self ...

A film commissioned by the organisation Solitary Watch, which fights against the widespread use of solitary confinement in the United States, Tuesday Afternoon (2022) follows Powers in the first hours ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...