Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful ...

A bizarre theory (and a gory surgery) in fin-de-siècle Vienna help us get a grip on how science and medicine actually work ...

Can girls be robots?’ ‘Do worms cry?’ ‘Why are some things special?’ A mother collects questions from her curious child ...

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While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to ...

Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire ...

This experimental animation repeats and expands a simple eight-second scene until it bursts with colour, sound and abstract images ...

An appreciation of the immensity embedded in the ocean’s cycles offers a way to reimagine our relationship with time ...

Decades after Soviet nuclear testing, communities living near ‘atomic lakes’ in Kazakhstan confront the legacy of radiation ...

Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible ...

Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale ...