The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses ...

In the summer of 1646, the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences ...

Essays and videos on the nature and meaning of consciousness in humans, animals and plants, and the effects of mind-altering ...

The American philosopher David Lewis is remembered for defending modal realism: the view that non-actual possible worlds are as real as the actual world. But among those who knew him, he was as well ...

Cicero’s life and thought are a testament to the idea of probabilia: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain ...

When bird populations decline, certain songs may be lost forever. One physicist’s mission is to revive lost melodies ...

Inside one of America’s last Ku Klux Klan halls, architects, historians and residents reckon with preserving Fort Worth’s ...

Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge ...

Nautilus shells, automata and unicorn horns – the eclectic collections that embodied early modern Europe’s expanding world ...

A strange man arriving on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott animates her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride ...

A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’ Who belongs ...

Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) ...