Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and sustainability was one inseparable, planetary goal ...

In the wake of tragedy, an elderly couple must make a choice: should they let their son go to save the lives of others?

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must ...

I am at the airport gate waiting to depart, watching passengers hurry past with rolling suitcases and paper cups of coffee. A small boy sits very still beside his mother. He holds an iPad close to his ...

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us how human reason is so much more ...

A world of violence sustains itself through guns, poverty and other social ills, but also through the minds it creates ...

We don’t always need new scientific discoveries to save lives and improve the world. Often, the knowledge is already there ...

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind ...

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

A century ago, the Pan-American road promised a new era of fraternity between the two continents. Did it succeed?