Star Trek has endured because it repeatedly returns to a universal question: what does it mean to be human?
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You might be surprised by how many researchers who went on to make important contributions considered whether animals could have telepathy.
For Willem Dafoe’s Ed, being part of an artistic coterie after decades as a forgotten poet is like the pleasurable twitch of a phantom limb.
Concerns about the effect of social media on young minds mirror fears in ancient times around the way heightened drama affected audiences of public theatre.
Forty years on, James Cameron’s transformation of Ridley Scott’s horror classic remains a masterclass in how to make a sequel.
In the tapestry’s early scenes depicting what happened before 1066, William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson helped each other.
There is something apocalyptic in this performance.
The government has fast-tracked approval for a data centre at the site of a historic brewery in east London.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
In 2026, Korean film is considered some of the most innovative and highly regarded of world cinemas. in 2016, it wasn’t quite the same.
Harris is a superb storyteller, and Agrippa is a compelling read.
Classical music lovers might think they’re different from pop music stans but letters show their love and devotion run just as deep.
A volcanic eruption in 536 kicked off ‘the worst year to be alive’.
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
Some big clubs have alienated supporters with their approach to ticket sales.
These five books take readers through time and across Ukraine.
The 1986 science fiction thriller features everything from robotic exoskeletons to terraforming.
The characters become immersed in a psychosexual frenzy of self-discovery.
Why streamers are paying for sports programmes with no actual sport in them.
Stop! That! Train! is a lot of fun, so long as you’re someone who doesn’t take yourself too seriously.
A country defined by verdancy and mildness is neither of those things as climate change makes England hotter.
Eighteenth-century caricaturists knew what modern film-makers understand: ancient myths can be endlessly adapted for new audiences.
Lady Isabella thinks she’s “aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians” but visibility has a strange, unexpected effect on her.
One way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.
The most famous Scottish cannibal was Sawney Bean, a 16th-century man who, with his wife and children, supposedly killed and ate travellers to the Ayrshire coast.