Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful ...

A bizarre theory (and a gory surgery) in fin-de-siècle Vienna help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work ...

Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child ...

Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation ...

An appreciation of the immensity embedded in the ocean’s cycles offers a way to reimagine our relationship with time ...

This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract images ...

The US filmmaker Neil Halloran is known for short documentaries that combine illuminating data visualisation with powerful storytelling. In his latest work, The Plea, Halloran explores how smallpox ...

Reveal a lot about a country’s soul. – from Bucolics (1952-53) by W H Auden Featuring audio restored from a 1956 recording, this video features the British American poet W H Auden (1907-73) performing ...

is associate lecturer in moral, legal and political philosophy at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees (2024).

The celebrated UK studio Aardman Animations is best known for lighthearted claymation comedies including the Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep franchises. However, this 1989 short from their ...