When Lars von Trier seeks applications for a ‘female girlfriend/muse’, a filmmaker puts forward her 72-year-old lesbian ...

Since states are founded on violence and expulsion, their existence is always bound up in thorny questions about justice ...

River bank or bank account? How chatbots learned to make the quantum leap to context by training on billions of prompts ...

Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

Tuft of hair on top, double chin bulging from the bottom, the offending arm held out like a weapon. A wicked smile that said: Gotcha. Did you think you were safe? I t was 2015, and I had moved to ...

is a research affiliate at the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, as well as an affiliate researcher at the Berggruen Institute’s Antikythera thinktank. His most recent ...

For Father Giles, who has lived as a Benedictine monk at Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland for nearly half a century, freedom is a concept defined by love and shaped by prayer. As he explains in this short ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue ...