Striking slow-motion footage captures the awesome evolutionary diversity – and handy usefulness – of a lizard’s tongue ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...

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Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm?

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on ...

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting From Liber Divinorum Operum (The Book of Divine Works) by Hildegard von ...

In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling: Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, ...