When we look for extraterrestrials, we often peer into the depths of space. But alien life might be closer than you think ...

Meet Sammy Squitten, the baby squirrel suckled by a cat and raised by a human, in this story narrated by David Attenborough ...

The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities ...

Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

Photo by Robert Capa/Magnum Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, and ...

Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and ...

is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (2025). As I cycle from downtown ...

is a human evolutionary biologist with a focus on behavioural endocrinology. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, an associate in Harvard’s Department of Psychology ...

In Rwanda, 2,000 to 10,000 adults are estimated to have been conceived through rapes that occurred during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group. Despite the country’s many efforts to reckon with ...

In Taiga, the Finland-based media artist Leena Lehti crafts a visceral ‘elegy’ to the boreal forests of her region. Created by Lehti without the use of a camera, the piece pairs animations of regional ...