The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life ...

is the author of the novels Old Border Road (2010) and Mysterium (2018). She lives in Seattle and New York City. Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most drab, tedious and monotonous moments of life. We ...

Why the stunning rhinoceros hornbills are the farmers of the rainforest and a powerful avian symbol of regeneration ...

What is a German museum doing with a Kikuyu artefact it doesn’t know anything about? A journey to Kenya for some answers ...

We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern?

Frontotemporal dementia is rare and ruthless. When it robbed Katie of her husband at 33, his story became her life’s work Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment ...

is a philosopher and psychoanalyst. She is a professor at the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) at the University of Tyumen in Siberia, and director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

A millennial and her centenarian friend take a unique road trip ...

‘Whose day isn’t gonna be better after watching a pink and yellow rosy maple moth fly in super-slow motion?’ You might think of moths primarily as the pesky creatures that get drawn to your lamplight ...

Starting in 1969, and for several years afterwards, in church basements and community centre kitchens in cities and towns around the United States, thousands of kids sat around a table every school ...

is a British nonfiction author. He obtained his PhD at the University of British Columbia, and now lives in rural Portugal. ‘Anything that’s in your character at twenty-one,’ says a businessman in F ...