Architectural copies of lost structures require reckoning with history and heritage. At what cost is the past rebuilt?

Can societies exist without families? Can individuality thrive in them? Margaret Mead on the brave new world of 1959 ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest bird in North America, has existed near the brink of extinction for decades, ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...

How can you hallucinate something without any sensation at all? This is the paradox at the heart of felt presence. There are a few different ways you can approach this question. It could be that ...

If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? And would they be better off without us?

For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t ...