The idea of nothing pushes at the limits of thought, spawning paradoxes that have long nourished art, philosophy, and science ...

Tattoos are often more than just ink on skin – they’re a declaration of identity and values. But what happens when the person changes, yet the ink remains? This question is at the centre of the US ...

After the dawn of life some 4 billion years ago, one of the most fascinating and mysterious turning points in the history of life on Earth is its leap from single-celled organisms to multicellularity ...

The sprawling stone ruins of Zimbabwe are deeply intertwined with its national identity. Indeed, the name ‘Zimbabwe’ itself is derived from a term meaning ‘houses of stone’. Due to colonial prejudices ...

A very basic yet, from our perspective, easy to overlook quality of the Universe is that everything is in motion, all the time. Even things that have united humanity across the ages and that we take ...

is professor emeritus of philosophy of science at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book is A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics (2023).

is associate professor of Earth science at the University of Birmingham in the UK and the co-founder of a new charity, the Global Volcano Risk Alliance. He is also a research affiliate at the Centre ...

‘There are people who have everything and have achieved nothing. But then there are people who have nothing and have achieved a lot.’ The sugar mill towns, or bateyes, of the Dominican Republic were ...

is assistant professor of aesthetics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His new book Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant will be published in October 2025.