As the hearing parent of a deaf baby, I’m confronted with an agonising decision: should I give her an implant to help her ...

Physicists and philosophers today have formulated three opposing models that explain how laws work. Which is the best?

The three generations of scientists dedicated to knowing a small sliver of Earth, one flower and one hummingbird at a time ...

is professor of biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. His latest book is The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory (2020), co-authored with Robert N Brandon.

is a writer who lives in southern California. He holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Fulbright grant recipient.

is assistant professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History at the Ohio State University. She is the author of States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (2024).

The Greek philosopher Democritus first proposed that the Universe was built from indivisible building blocks, or atomos, in roughly 400 BCE. This animation from physicists at the Massachusetts ...

is professor of sleep physiology and tutorial fellow in medicine at the University of Oxford, as well as vice-president of the European Sleep Research Society and a TEDx speaker.

is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. He is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University in California and at Teachers College, Columbia University in New ...

In this 1976 clip from the long-running BBC children’s show Blue Peter, the UK presenter Valerie Singleton travels to the now-famous Amsterdam house where the teenage Anne Frank hid from Nazi ...