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How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

What is it about lulls in conversation that make them so very uncomfortable? It has to do with how we connect with each other ...

The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest bird in North America, has existed near the brink of extinction for decades, ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful ...

Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural ...