Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons ...

Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality ...

For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many ...

From weapon to icon – a riveting history lesson in the many meanings of the samurai sword that’s also just plain cool to see ...

Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today?

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return ...

Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural ...

Between 1603 and 1868, Japan entered an era of unified rule and isolation known as the Edo period, named after the city of Edo – modern-day Tokyo – which was the seat of government. This TED-Ed ...

‘Years may wrinkle skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul’. After the death of his father, the US-based director and photographer Alex Lockett travelled to Okinawa, an island region in the ...

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the once-thriving ancient Roman city under some 5 m of volcanic debris. With a dark irony, it was this ...

poetry as I need it . Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in ...