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 ...

I began my formal research in 1999, eight years after battling my way out of a secret, so-called Marxist-Leninist group whose leader controlled my life in its most intimate details. He determined what ...

It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, ...

At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...

‘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 ...

In 1979, a death-defying English handyman named Fred Dibnah (1938-2004) became something of a national folk hero after the BAFTA-winning documentary Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack first aired on the BBC.

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

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

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