Praying is a cognitive practice full of problem-solving resources. You can learn from it even if you don’t want to do it ...

There is some other type of beauty that is not visual,’ he explained to us in an interview. ‘I’m not sure what it is. Perhaps ...

Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest ...

is associate professor of moral and political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Málaga in Spain. She is the author of Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism: Politics ...

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...

The famed ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 occurred some five months after the outbreak of the First World War when widespread, unofficial ceasefires arose on the Western Front on Christmas Eve and Christmas ...

is professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is the author of The Anatomy of Dance Discourse: Literary and Philosophical ...

Metamorphic Lewisian gneiss rock on the coastline of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, formed 1.6-2.6 billion years ago. Photo by Scott Robertson/Getty Images is professor of geosciences and ...

In this entrancing video, the Dutch filmmaker, photographer and artist Michiel de Boer (aka Posy) provides close-ups of a series of square-millimetre surfaces of everyday objects around his home, ...

is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, Gender and Media at SOAS University of London, UK. Europe benefitted by the wonderful increase in the amenities of life for the mass of her people ...

Much of the world watched on in wonder and excitement when, on 13 October 2024, a rocket from Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX boosted a spacecraft into orbit and was successfully retrieved ...

It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the Universe. Today that great endeavour is in serious doubt In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that ...