Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective ...

Rising far above the desert, the walls of these magnificent hills carry the ancient story of humanity’s creative spark ...

It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom ...

is Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. He is the author of Open Standards and the Digital Age (2014) and co-editor of Ada’s Legacy ...

Aeon Essays and Videos on Art In the glow of the candle Joseph Wright of Derby put science at the centre of his art. Eclipsed in his lifetime, his work still burns with radical ideas Charlotte Mullins ...

Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in everyday life, helping them ...

While their stories are distinct, overlapping themes of loneliness, agony and elaborate mental escapes run throughout. Beyond making a forceful case against the use of solitary confinement, the film ...

In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature ...

The traditional dwellings of the Batammariba people in Koutammakou, on the border of Togo and Benin in West Africa, are at once ‘a work of art, a home, and a place of worship’. These striking mud ...

is a senior lecturer in the School of Geosciences and co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. is professor of history at the University of ...

is a research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol in the UK, working on Samir Okasha’s Representing Evolution project. Every week at the office, you and your fellow ...