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

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

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

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

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

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