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Everything in the Universe, from wandering turtles to falling rocks, is surrounded by ‘fields’ that guide and direct movement ...

Switch from the Moon’s orbit of Earth to its trajectory around the Sun, and you shift your entire view of our solar system ...

What GPS tracking says about why the common whimbrel stops at a small spit of sand in South Carolina on its migratory route ...

Arrested for supplying water to migrants from Mexico, an aid worker’s trial challenges the boundary between law and morality ...

Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory ...

Even as Nehru proclaimed the moral superiority of India for taking a stance against colonialism in all forms, he oversaw India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir. In Kashmir, Nehru said, ‘democracy and ...

The sensations of cooking stir up complicated questions about the relationship between a daughter and her mother ...

A small and exceptionally remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean, the British overseas territory of St Helena is famed for being the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last exile and death. However, as ...

is a PhD student in philosophy at Harvard University studying philosophy of science. She is also a professional fashion photographer, whose work has spanned from covering NYFW runways to editorial ...

C P Snow’s lecture ‘The Two Cultures’ (1959) argued that the perceived divide between scientists and literary scholars is narrower than commonly believed. They both fundamentally seek to understand ...