The three generations of scientists dedicated to knowing a small sliver of Earth, one flower and one hummingbird at a time ...

is professor of sleep physiology and tutorial fellow in medicine at the University of Oxford, as well as vice-president of the European Sleep Research Society and a TEDx speaker.

is a historian and sociologist of science and the Thomas M Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Algorithmic ...

For most of human history, understanding the behaviours of objects in the sky was neither a curiosity nor an academic pursuit, as it is throughout much of the world today. Rather, knowing how ...

is a writer who lives in southern California. He holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Fulbright grant recipient.

is assistant professor of philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better The suffragettes Mary Leigh and Edith New on their release from Holloway ...

is professor of biology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. His latest book is The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory (2020), co-authored with Robert N Brandon.

is a producer and curator of talks, broadcasts and animations. She was the senior producer of the RSA’s public events programme for more than a decade, curating a year-round festival that showcased ...

is assistant professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History at the Ohio State University. She is the author of States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (2024).

The Greek philosopher Democritus first proposed that the Universe was built from indivisible building blocks, or atomos, in roughly 400 BCE. This animation from physicists at the Massachusetts ...