Essays and videos on the oceans and water systems that sustain and shape all life on Earth, from marine ecosystems to desert ...

In his short documentary Their Eyes, the French filmmaker Nicolas Gourault spotlights the voices of several of these ...

The nation’s water is secure, but its food is another matter: lessons from the city-state in efficiency versus ...

An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition For ...

Serving as living metaphors, an artist’s self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our ...

Essays and videos on ageing and death, exploring mortality, loss and growing old through personal narratives, philosophy and ...

Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves ...

I fell for physics because it offered a sense of order. Now I now its deep insight is how to accept the messiness of life ...

is professor of philosophy at University College London. He is director of the MA in philosophy, politics and economics of health, co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre and co-director of ...

is a writer and adult educator from London. He was the recipient of the 2022 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. When I first read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, I ...

Native to central and southern Europe, the amphibious alpine newt breeds in shallow water, where its larvae are born, hatch and feed on plankton, before sprouting legs and moving to land. This ...