is an associate professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Wartime Origins of ...

is associate professor of moral and political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Málaga in Spain. She is the author of Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism: Politics ...

In China, it’s illegal for unmarried women to freeze their eggs. This law, combined with a more independent and career-focused generation of women entering their 30s across the country, has ...

is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University in Virginia, US.

The famed ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914 occurred some five months after the outbreak of the First World War when widespread, unofficial ceasefires arose on the Western Front on Christmas Eve and Christmas ...

The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’ It was thought that science could tell us about the origins of the ...

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...

Metamorphic Lewisian gneiss rock on the coastline of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, formed 1.6-2.6 billion years ago. Photo by Scott Robertson/Getty Images is professor of geosciences and ...

Generative AI has lately set off public euphoria: the machines have learned to think! But just how intelligent is AI? We can split light by a prism, sounds by tones, but surely the world of odour is ...