There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?

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

is a philosopher specialising in theology and natural science in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in the interaction of science and religion, particularly ...

is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein (2016) and the biography Frank Ramsey: A Sheer ...

Into the Blue takes viewers inside a police bootcamp for young girls living in public housing in Copenhagen. Given little forewarning about what the week-long experience will hold, the mixed group of ...

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.

When one imagines life in the ancient Roman army, it’s easy to conjure images of historic, bloody battles fought at close range. But, as this video from the British Museum details, life in the Roman ...

The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better The suffragettes Mary Leigh and Edith New on their release from Holloway ...

is a historian and sociologist of science and the Thomas M Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Algorithmic ...

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.

For most of human history, understanding the behaviours of objects in the sky was neither a curiosity nor an academic pursuit, as it is throughout much of the world today. Rather, knowing how ...