The world’s isms – capitalism, socialism, fascism and so on – explored through the analogy of your mum doing the washing ...

As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead ...

Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages ...

After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?

Inspired by a TikTok trend, a cognitive scientist developed the largest citizen science study in animal communication ...

Like today’s large language models, 16th-century humanists had techniques to automate writing – to the detriment of novelty ...

An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time ...

Peel back the visible and invisible layers of brilliance in one artist’s clever self-portraits juxtaposing East and West ...

is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024) ...