Acute inflammation helps the body heal. But chronic inflammation is different and could provoke a medical paradigm shift ...

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 ...

Scientists and philosophers have long pondered the ethical implications of creating so-called ‘designer babies’. Today, the ability to choose certain genetic traits has, in many cases, become a ...

Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs ...

How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities ...

Exoplanet discoveries have reshaped astronomy. Are exomoons next? Brian Greene in conversation with David Kipping ...

The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our ...

Only four known Maya books have survived both Spanish colonial destruction and the passage of time. Created in the 11th or 12th century, the Códice Maya de México (the Maya Codex of Mexico) is the ...

Interviewed in a 1977 documentary about her life and work as a painter, Georgia O’Keeffe, then 90, spoke of her hunger for the desert. ‘When I got to New Mexico, that was mine. As soon as I saw it, ...

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