Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...

Carroll also acknowledges that far-right tropes continue to permeate the genre. It’s not hard to think of examples of narratives like, say, Avengers: Endgame in which, as Carroll says, “militaristic ...

In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

Stuart Phelps opens the door to Cafe Conscious, a busy coffee shop in the middle of Barton Hill estate in Bristol. As he steps in, staff and customers alike turn around to greet him. He’s come to talk ...

From "The Face" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery to "Leigh Bowery!" at Tate Modern, young people are fascinated by the 80s – but they should remember the politics as well as the fashion ...

What else might be happening to my brain as it’s constantly flooded by endless content and information? Vuorre says that studying a brain that’s bombarded with stimuli is “not a common experimental ...

Children play in Havana, Cuba, in this still from “Children’s Game #40: Chivichanas” from the “Children’s Games” series by Francis Alÿs In a war-ravaged street in Mosul, Iraq, a dozen boys are filmed ...