How does it feel to be ‘highly sensitive’? If I’d heard the question without all I know now, I would have said I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t. But after the term was applied to me in 1991 by a ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

Let’s start by observing that, mercifully, not all silences are awkward. Most of the time, even silence in the company of others is not awkward. I’m currently sitting in a busy coffee shop. Animated ...

Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest bird in North America, has existed near the brink of extinction for decades, ...

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

Take a tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of organic architecture built atop a waterfall in rural ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...