In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world ...

Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift ...

What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated the world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, humanity let out a collective sigh, recognising the loss of an essential human territory to the onslaught of ...

If you tied a rope tight around the Earth’s equator and then added a single yard of slack, would the extra material make any noticeable difference to someone standing on the ground? Yes, actually. The ...

At Wat Doi Kham, my local temple in Chiang Mai in Thailand, visitors come in their thousands every week. Bearing money and garlands of jasmine, the devotees prostrate themselves in front of a small ...

I began my formal research in 1999, eight years after battling my way out of a secret, so-called Marxist-Leninist group whose leader controlled my life in its most intimate details. He determined what ...

How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities ...

In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time ...

This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken ...

The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our ...

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping ...