In this tech-vexed age, our life on screens prevents us from experiencing the mysteries and transformative wonder of life ...

Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement ...

Switch from the Moon’s orbit of Earth to its trajectory around the Sun, and you shift your entire view of our solar system ...

Even as Nehru proclaimed the moral superiority of India for taking a stance against colonialism in all forms, he oversaw India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir. In Kashmir, Nehru said, ‘democracy and ...

The social world doesn’t work how we pretend it does. Too often, we are led to believe it is a structured, ordered system defined by clear rules and patterns. The economy, apparently, runs on ...

What GPS tracking says about why the common whimbrel stops at a small spit of sand in South Carolina on its migratory route ...

The sensations of cooking stir up complicated questions about the relationship between a daughter and her mother ...

Arrested for supplying water to migrants from Mexico, an aid worker’s trial challenges the boundary between law and morality ...

is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also department chair. His books include Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (2015) and The Entanglement: How Art and ...

is a PhD student in philosophy at Harvard University studying philosophy of science. She is also a professional fashion photographer, whose work has spanned from covering NYFW runways to editorial ...

A small and exceptionally remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the British overseas territory of St Helena is famed for being the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last exile and death. However, as ...