Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

The Description of Heaven (1623), by the astronomer Conrad Aslachus, feels close to many ideas about the afterlife still common in Christianity today: heaven is ‘a stately citie, where we shall be ...

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and sustainability was one inseparable, planetary goal ...

In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...

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Despite his many intellectual achievements, I suspect there are some concepts my dog cannot conceive of, or even contemplate. He can sit on command and fetch a ball, but I suspect that he cannot ...

As I was growing up in England in the latter half of the 20th century, the concept of intelligence loomed large. It was aspired to, debated and – most important of all – measured. At the age of 11, ...

In the Khyber valley of Northern Pakistan, three large boulders sit atop a hill commanding a beautiful prospect of the city of Mansehra. A low brick wall surrounds these boulders; a simple roof, ...