For people with chronic illnesses, the relief and recognition of online communities can set up a toxic psychological trap ...

A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities ...

In his short film Papers (1991), the Japanese artist Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing animation. Moving through a flurry of Japanese characters, moon phases, ...

Scientists and philosophers have long pondered the ethical implications of creating so-called ‘designer babies’. Today, the ability to choose certain genetic traits has, in many cases, become a ...

At the turn of the 20th century, two Swedish sisters – Ingeborg and Gunborg Elfving – dreamt of an existence free from male oppression. In her will, Gunborg requested that a house be built in their ...

Current technology allows for radical memory enhancement: smartphones can­ record (and transcribe) every conversation, and wearable cameras ­can capture hours of first-person audiovisual recording. We ...

In the early 1960s, quantum physics was regarded as one of the most successful theories of all time. It explained a wide range of phenomena to an unprecedented level of accuracy, from the structure of ...

For the vast majority of human history, we’ve relied on the Sun to tell time – a reliably unreliable method, given the body’s tendency to disappear behind clouds and the horizon. This animation from ...

Commissioned as a summer home for a wealthy Pittsburgh department store owner, Fallingwater (1935-38) is often considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece. This video by the YouTube channel Open Space ...

The Colosseum in Rome, which was completed in roughly 80 CE and used for the next five centuries, is, of course, one of the most famed buildings in human history. Nonetheless, even viewers who’ve ...