Frontotemporal dementia is rare and ruthless. When it robbed Katie of her husband at 33, his story became her life’s work Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment ...

Japanese news clippings from 1991 blur into a hypnotic collage ...

Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way ...

At the time of writing, Australia is on fire. The fires have killed at least 25 humans and more than a billion animals. Animals such as koalas are especially at risk, since their normal response to ...

The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy ...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities ...

After decades of experimenting on animal brains, the US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a ‘whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s. By performing a complex surgery ...

Recent decades have seen private wealth multiply around the Western world, making us richer than ever before. A hasty glance at the soaring number of billionaires – some doubling as international ...

Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush ...

Some 2,700 years ago in the ancient city of Sam’al, in what is now modern Turkey, an elderly servant of the king sits in a corner of his house and contemplates the nature of his soul. His name is ...

Starting in 1969, and for several years afterwards, in church basements and community centre kitchens in cities and towns around the United States, thousands of kids sat around a table every school ...

Shortly before 8am on 26 December 2004, the cicadas fell silent and the ground shook in dismay. The Moken, an isolated tribe on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, knew that the Laboon, the ‘wave ...