Diving into the ring of darkness beyond things easily answerable, asking ‘Why?’ questions is what make humans awesome ...

A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...

is the Anne and George L Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee ...

is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He is also chair ...

Both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his friend Adam Smith agreed that modern humans were vain creatures, ceaselessly adjusting and masking themselves to gain the favour of others. However, as this short ...