Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes ...

How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity ...

I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea ...

‘There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.’ From Prejudices (1920) by H L Mencken There has never been a problem facing mankind more complex than ...

The American philosopher David Lewis is remembered for defending modal realism: the view that non-actual possible worlds are as real as the actual world. But among those who knew him, he was as well ...

A riveting ride through the history of astrophysics, this video details how humans have climbed ‘the cosmic distance ladder’ to calculate sizes and distances in the cosmos. The second in a two-part ...

On the coast of Cornwall in southwest England lies the picturesque village of Flushing, shaped by its fishing heritage and close-knit community. In this gentle portrait of place, the UK director Anna ...

In Bridging the Gap, the English filmmaker Nina Ross collaborates with the artist Meg Barrett to explore Barrett’s experience of hearing a male voice, starting at age 18. Integrating footage, personal ...

Derived from iron-rich rocks, red ochre is humanity’s oldest known pigment, with a discovery in a cave in Zambia believed to date back between 350,000 and 400,000 years. For archaeologists, it serves ...

Shortly before 8am on 26 December 2004, the cicadas fell silent and the ground shook in dismay. The Moken, an isolated tribe on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, knew that the Laboon, the ‘wave ...

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An ode to life on the road. Irish Travellers at a gathering in County Galway share memories, songs and crafts by the fire ...