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In her masterfully constructed short The Other Side of the Mountain, Yumeng He, a Chinese filmmaker based in Berlin, follows her father, Cheng He, as he returns to his childhood home in the Chongqing ...

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Images of vast ‘canals’ rippling across the red planet inspired fears of alien ‘engineers’ and changed science forever ...

In 1979, a death-defying English handyman named Fred Dibnah (1938-2004) became something of a national folk hero after the BAFTA-winning documentary Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack first aired on the BBC.

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His new book Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant will be published in October 2025.

is professor and personal chair in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in in Scotland, UK. He has published many articles and books on the ethics of suicide, assisted dying, and suicide ...