As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead ...

Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages ...

Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty ...

Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication ...

Peel back the visible and invisible layers of brilliance in one artist’s clever self-portraits juxtaposing East and West ...

The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing ...

An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time ...