Blending her identities as a scientist, artist and mother, Ani Liu contemplates how power and control shape the body in her ...

Boarding a train in France a few years after the Second World War, a medical student specialising in psychiatry at a prestigious university, a man who had previously volunteered and fought for the ...

Preteen sisters Peyton and Lyla represent a growing number of children who, with the help and encouragement of their parents, are trying to leverage a social media presence into income. For the two, ...

In the Netherlands, students learn about sexuality gradually, starting as young as age four. This expansive sex-ed model has been credited with some of the world’s best outcomes for teen sexual health ...

is a postdoctoral fellow working at the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education at the University of Calgary in Canada. Light spatters on the seafloor, creating a moving kaleidoscope of ...

The year 2010 saw the death of Boa Senior, the last living speaker of Aka-Bo, a tribal language native to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. News coverage of Boa Senior’s death noted that she ...

In the 1930s, a Belgian priest and physicist named Georges Lemaître transformed our understanding of the Universe when he envisioned its birth as a cosmic explosion. According to Lemaître, the ...

Existentialism has had many alleged births. Famous ones include the melancholy of Søren Kierkegaard’s Copenhagen, Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, and the Parisian glamour of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1945 ...

is associate professor of philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2019, she will become professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her latest book is ...

Many of us, scientists included, harbour contradictory intuitions about Mother Nature. We can see that ecosystems often have an inherent ability to self-stabilise, and we know we wouldn’t be here if ...

The art of ‘being for another’ – following, listening to and making sense of another person’s world – has been practised for millennia. Humans have always discussed their lives, their values and their ...

In Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876), the hapless snark-hunting crew found themselves presented with a navigational challenge by their captain, the Bellman: He had bought a large map ...