Elephant families are matriarchal, inclusive and caring. But when environmental scarcity hits, everything changes ...

In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world ...

An ode to life on the road. Irish Travellers at a gathering in County Galway share memories, songs and crafts by the fire ...

I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea ...

The American philosopher David Lewis is remembered for defending modal realism: the view that non-actual possible worlds are as real as the actual world. But among those who knew him, he was as well ...

In this interview from the long-running series Closer to Truth, the British theoretical physicist and philosopher David Deutsch makes the case that understanding the difference between good and bad ...

On the coast of Cornwall in southwest England lies the picturesque village of Flushing, shaped by its fishing heritage and close-knit community. In this gentle portrait of place, the UK director Anna ...

In her masterfully constructed short The Other Side of the Mountain, Yumeng He, a Chinese filmmaker based in Berlin, follows her father, Cheng He, as he returns to his childhood home in the Chongqing ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated the world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, humanity let out a collective sigh, recognising the loss of an essential human territory to the onslaught of ...

A riveting ride through the history of astrophysics, this video details how humans have climbed ‘the cosmic distance ladder’ to calculate sizes and distances in the cosmos. The second in a two-part ...

Derived from iron-rich rocks, red ochre is humanity’s oldest known pigment, with a discovery in a cave in Zambia believed to date back between 350,000 and 400,000 years. For archaeologists, it serves ...

In the wake of Second World War, the French existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus were close friends. They drank and argued together, often spending long nights out on the town. All around ...