We often assume that our memories are stored in our brains, just like a hard drive stores data. However, philosopher of time Victoria Trumbull argues this is a radical mistake. Drawing on the ...

Why does the idea of genetic determinism have such a lasting appeal? We thought that the sequencing of genetic information would unlock vast developments in medical cures for a whole host of illnesses ...

Life is not sacred and should end when you no longer want to live. Many in the US derided the 9/11 jumpers for choosing to end their lives. Yet this was surely a strong if terrible decision. Are we ...

Multiverses are everywhere. Or at least the theory is. Everyone from physicists Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene to Marvel superheroes have shown their support for the idea. But critics argue that not ...

Quantum physics doesn’t just rewrite our equations; it dismantles our ontology. From uncertainty to entanglement, the theory breaks the classical idea of the world as made of individual objects with ...

The Speaker Dr Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and social critic. She is a best-selling author, a columnist for The Guardian, and a visiting scholar at the New School for Social ...

Central to the West has been the allegiance of the US and Europe. But Trump's December 2025 Strategic Review outlined a very different world order in which the US is not necessarily allied to Europe ...

We tend to experience time as a river flowing inexorably forward: linear, orderly, with the past firmly in the past. But Timotheus Vermeulen, the cultural theorist who first popularized the idea that ...

Intelligence is often measured by facts known and judgments made. Schools reward memorization, work requires discernment, while AI now reduces intelligence to calculation. But intelligence is more ...

Popularised by Dawkins' work The Selfish Gene, we think genes are the blueprint for life. But might this commonly-held view of biology and evolution be mistaken? Join renowned Oxford biologist, Denis ...

Is bacteria escaping antibiotics by harnessing this disorder? Order and disorder are famous concepts in physics, but we often overlook the role of these seemingly opposing ideas in our lives. In this ...

After a Nature paper provided possible indications of past life on Mars, neuroscientist and philosopher Erik Hoel makes the case that Mars could act as a planetary museum for life’s origins. For ...