What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question ...

Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated the world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, humanity let out a collective sigh, recognising the loss of an essential human territory to the onslaught of ...

If you tied a rope tight around the Earth’s equator and then added a single yard of slack, would the extra material make any noticeable difference to someone standing on the ground? Yes, actually. The ...

‘The longer the trip, the more healing occurs,’ says the geologist Peter Winn, who has been leading expeditions down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon since the 1960s. ‘Healing happens for people ...

Should deaf parents be able to select for a deaf child? On the ethics of parental choice and ‘designer babies’ ...

How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities ...

In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time ...

This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken ...

The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our ...

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping ...

An animated interpretation of the story of the Indigenous people kidnapped from Tierra del Fuego and brought to England in ...