One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality ...

From weapon to icon – a riveting history lesson in the many meanings of the samurai sword that’s also just plain cool to see ...

‘I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger … I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people took up baking, others decided to get a dog; I chose to grow and observe slime mould. The study in my partner’s flat in Edinburgh became home to two cultures ...

If you care about animals, you should eat them. It is not just that you may do so, but you should do so. In fact, you owe it to animals to eat them. It is your duty. Why? Because eating animals ...

Here is an easy challenge: imagine you are faced with a tough problem. Life is strewn with problems that need to be solved. And most problems do not require single decisions, like ‘Who should I vote ...

is a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Otago, as well as an external research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He is interested in understanding ...

The opposition between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is problematic for many reasons, but there’s one that we rarely discuss. The ‘nature vs culture’ dualism leaves out an entire domain that properly belongs ...

We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the notion that AIs could possess some form of consciousness, argues Jonathan Birch, professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science ...

Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every ...