We all want longevity without compromising on quality of life. This 87-year-old achieves both with a daily running habit ...

What does true wilderness look like? A photographer captures a rare slice of it in this refuge threatened by development ...

How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work ...

Opening at the scene of a picnic in a Chicago park, then gradually zooming out to encompass a view 100 million light years away before magnifying down again to a single proton, this classic 1977 short ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the semi-mythical father of medicine, Hippocrates of Kos, challenged the spiritualists of his time with a bold claim about the nature of the human mind. In response to ...

He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the ...

is professor of philosophy at University College London. He is director of the MA in philosophy, politics and economics of health, co-director of the UCL Health Humanities Centre and co-director of ...

I cross the finish line of a race, exhausted and excited. Before having the opportunity to rest or to celebrate, I am escorted to a small room with folding chairs organised around the perimeter, for ...

The psychologist Naomi Eisenberger describes herself as a mutt of a scientist. Never quite fitting the mould of the fields she studied – psychobiology, health psychology, neuroscience – she took an ...

This hand-painted stop motion animation recalls the textures of a family home demolished to make way for a widened road ...

Struggling to speak after an operation, one man sets out to build himself a new connection to the world: a radio antenna ...

These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it ...