Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

Martin Cohen is a British author. His most recent book is "The Ah-ha Moment: Exploring Philosophical Ideas through Jokes and Puzzles" ...

Paul Davies is a cosmologist and best-selling author who chairs the Post-Detection Taskgroup for SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In 2006 he founded Beyond: Center for Fundamental ...

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

Kerem Oktem is a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His book Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989 will be published by Zed Books in 2009.

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her latest book, Sex in Crisis, has caused a furore in America, where she has been accused of ...

In 2014, Zora founded Lok Rang Noor Art, a gender fluid, all-queer Giddha troupe that has become a beacon of inclusivity and ...