Author and philosopher Albert Camus died in a car crash in 1960, aged just 46. But the existential, moral and political ...

Professor Bruce Levitt argues that it is not engineering, but the arts that will ultimately save humanity from its most ...

We’ve got all the non-fiction food groups covered in this World Book Day 2026 edition of our book round-ups.

Albert Camus wrote in the shadow of fascism, war and ideological violence. His defence of truth, democratic dialogue and ...

There is a peculiar talent some writers possess: the ability to take a simple subject and inflate it into a grand philosophical crisis. The recent letter titled “The World’s on Fire, But At Least My ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it shouldn't have survived as a species, let alone thrive as a species for over ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Recent advances have increased the number of bacteria, protists, fungi, and insects are known to science, making it difficult to count the total number of species on Earth. Now, a new study shows that ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to revive extinct animals and save endangered ones.

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...