It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius ...

Quaker, conscientious objector, prison reformer – these are just some of the many lives of the scientist Kathleen Lonsdale ...

A captivating story from Aardman Animations about a ‘little thief’ turned career criminal who just can’t break the habit ...

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony ...

Smallpox went from a feared killer to a fading memory. Its eradication is one of humanity’s greatest collective triumphs ...

An optical poem featuring audio of W H Auden’s ode to trees paired with art from the Met and outdoor footage of New York state ...

is associate lecturer in moral, legal and political philosophy at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is the author of The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees (2024).

is full professor and director of the theoretical philosophy group and the research group on neuroethics/neurophilosophy at the department of philosophy at the ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

First the rush, then the reality – how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme spread faster than a virus in a sleepy Georgia town ...