A composer encourages viewers to find beauty in the mundane rhythms and repetitions of everyday traffic patterns ...

From poison spikes to fake snake eyes, caterpillars employ many clever strategies to survive to their dazzling adulthoods ...

Fig-bark paper, vivid pigments and intricate imagery: the oldest book in the Americas is a complex work of Maya astronomy ...

Through her paintings, Georgia O’Keefe laid claim to New Mexico’s desert landscape. But it was never hers for the taking ...

As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come ...

From late-night calls to unsolved symptoms, uncertainty is woven into every doctor’s day. They should learn to embrace it ...

The magnificent Altar of Peace celebrates the imperial order of Augustus’ Rome and his place in the fabric of the cosmos ...

is a philosopher at the University of Oxford, where he teaches philosophy to both undergraduate and graduate students. He works at the intersection of moral, political, and legal philosophy. He ...

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 ...

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.

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 ...

is a lecturer in ethics at King’s College, London, and the British Society for the History of Philosophy Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-25).