In his short documentary Their Eyes, the French filmmaker Nicolas Gourault spotlights the voices of several of these overlooked workers in Kenya, the Philippines and Venezuela. Throughout, they ...

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

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

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

Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback ...

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

Why, of all people, defend the dilettante? An amateur at best, a flighty rascal at worst: why take an interest in someone whose own interests are never more than a passing hobby? These are serious ...

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

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

Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece ...

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

Ancient specimens reveal how animals began to move half a billion years ago – and even the first known example of ‘handedness ...