The World Bank’s poverty line is inaccurate and out of date – an error that obscures the feebleness of market solutions ...

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges ...

Vova and Roma, two Ukrainian boys, spend their summer in the ever-present shadow of war in this affecting short film ...

Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe ...

Long believed to be particularly associated with males, new research is revolutionising our understanding of autism ...

Inspired by Japanese master artists, a woodcut printmaker is constantly reimagining the landscapes of his California home ...

Hyenas stage mock brawls, cats spin in circles chasing their tails, octopuses play push-and-pull with bottles, dogs bury sticks only to dig them up moments later… Even polar bears have been spotted ...

Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect ...

If I’m gonna to be this person, I gotta live by morals and standards’: how one man left his old life behind to start anew ...

Join a ‘computer dating’ meetup in 1966 in this short video to see what has – and hasn’t – changed in tech-assisted dating ...