For most of human history, understanding the behaviours of objects in the sky was neither a curiosity nor an academic pursuit, as it is throughout much of the world today. Rather, knowing how ...

The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better The suffragettes Mary Leigh and Edith New on their release from Holloway ...

is a writer who lives in southern California. He holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Fulbright grant recipient.

The three generations of scientists dedicated to knowing a small sliver of Earth, one flower and one hummingbird at a time ...

is assistant professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History at the Ohio State University. She is the author of States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (2024).

The Greek philosopher Democritus first proposed that the Universe was built from indivisible building blocks, or atomos, in roughly 400 BCE. This animation from physicists at the Massachusetts ...

is professor of sleep physiology and tutorial fellow in medicine at the University of Oxford, as well as vice-president of the European Sleep Research Society and a TEDx speaker.

In this 1976 clip from the long-running BBC children’s show Blue Peter, the UK presenter Valerie Singleton travels to the now-famous Amsterdam house where the teenage Anne Frank hid from Nazi ...

is a producer and curator of talks, broadcasts and animations. She was the senior producer of the RSA’s public events programme for more than a decade, curating a year-round festival that showcased ...

is assistant professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.