The term is usually used to describe the geographical area from the eastern Mediterranean to Iran, including Syria, Jordan, ...

What we’ve seen over the last 10 or 15 years, but which has really taken hold in the last couple of years, is a trend where ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

Renting in England can be bleak. Many of us have lived, at some point in our lives, in a dingy, drafty, dilapidated flat, whose owner is squeezing as much profit as possible from the arrangement.

I Told You So! Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right (St Martin’s Press) by Matt Kaplan We like to think that science is guided by a noble ideal: evidence rules. When ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

In 1786, Sir William Jones, a British philologist and judge, made the remarkable discovery that the ancient Indian language Sanskrit resembled Latin and Greek, “bearing to both of them a stronger ...

In the 1980s, when high-IQ societies like Mensa were surveyed about the term they thought best applied to their members, they didn’t gravitate to the term “geniuses”. More than any other, they liked ...

The world wide web is the most prolific incubator of conspiracy theories in human history. For the last few decades, it’s enabled users to spread their wildest, most inflammatory ideas across the ...

The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt Greta Thunberg famously told an audience at Davos, “I don’t want your hope.” What made more sense, she suggested, was for ...

In the summer of 1847, Oxford academic Arthur Hugh Clough, in a slump, travelled north to the Scottish Highlands seeking solitude, solace, a direction forward. There, he settled into a “Hesperian ...