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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more ...

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

This semester, my students are learning about four polymaths who shaped Islamic science: al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi. Their circumstances could hardly have been more different: one ...