Trek light years into deep space to explore time dilation and the ‘twin paradox’ at the centre of special relativity - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
The more we understand how cells produce shape and form, the more inadequate the idea of a genomic blueprint looks - by Philip Ball Read at Aeon | Continue reading
How a journeyman boxer gave up on the dream of a heavyweight title, and found contentment in being a professional loser - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Read with love, rather than critical distance, the classics can provide tools to subvert oppressive hierarchies | Continue reading
Could primordial black holes from the beginning of time explain ‘dark matter’, the mysterious missing mass in the Universe? | Continue reading
People with multiple chemical sensitivity seem to be allergic to the world. What, if anything, can medicine do for them? - by Xi Chen Read at Aeon | Continue reading
After a breakup, Gill moved to an an off-the-grid community on the Scottish island of Erraid. Six months on, can she stay? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
His communism brought the great American singer Paul Robeson trouble in the US, but helped make him a hero in China - by Gao Yunxiang Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Pauline Kael was a legendary film critic. But first, she wrote programme notes for a beloved arthouse cinema in California - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Could primordial black holes from the beginning of time explain ‘dark matter’, the mysterious missing mass in the Universe? - by Briley Lewis Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘You can smile at the past but longing is for the memory you don’t have yet’ – a rabbi and poet on two years of isolation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
It is unjust, cruel and profoundly wasteful to consign a person to prison for life. A decent society must not do it | Continue reading
It is unjust, cruel and profoundly wasteful to consign a person to prison for life. A decent society must not do it - by Judith Lichtenberg Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The Philippine eagle is the world’s largest and rarest. Can incredible close-up images save this masterpiece of nature? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Buddhist monks have mostly escaped the label of proselytisers, but they’ll still spread the word to those who seek them out - by Brooke Schedneck Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty. But today it is necessary to make cities sustainable | Continue reading
Throughout history, the most effective combatants have powered to victory on commitment to core values and collective resolve | Continue reading
When AIs visit a modern art museum, their reactions are both funny and revealing of the imperfect humans who trained them - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty. But today it is necessary to make cities sustainable - by Max Holleran Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To understand why so many adults are acting just like children, don’t blame Millennials – look to Japan in the 1990s | Continue reading
The odds-defying story of how the US congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink ushered in a revolution in women’s collegiate sports - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Mischievousness requires humour, wit and a playful humaneness: qualities that make for a particular kind of virtue - by Alex Moran Read at Aeon | Continue reading
To understand why so many adults are acting just like children, don’t blame Millennials – look to Japan in the 1990s - by Matt Alt Read at Aeon | Continue reading
There’s a mysterious rocket on a rooftop in LA. Does Wesley have it in him to get to the bottom of what’s going on up there? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
In all its baroque and sometimes cruelly overbred forms, the dog is a paramount symbol of both human hopes and foibles - by Katrina Gulliver Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Buka Town in Bougainville shows how bureaucratic states could be reimagined, not as concrete buildings but as living gardens | Continue reading
Think less of a holding pen for Heaven and more as a flow of love from the living, and the weirdness starts making sense | Continue reading
A deeper look at Tantra’s long history reveals the far-reaching influence of this subversive philosophy of feminine power - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Buka Town in Bougainville shows how bureaucratic states could be reimagined, not as concrete buildings but as living gardens - by Gordon Peake & Miranda Forsyth Read at Aeon | Continue reading
An artist heals himself and his ancestral home from past trauma through the near-alchemical process of glass blowing - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Think less of a holding pen for Heaven and more as a flow of love from the living, and the weirdness starts making sense - by Magnus Course Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Hot, strenuous and unsung. There is nothing soft and fluffy about the caretaking work that enables our digital lives | Continue reading
It’s time for a new agricultural revolution. How can conservation-oriented farming work with the environment to feed us all? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Hot, strenuous and unsung. There is nothing soft and fluffy about the caretaking work that enables our digital lives - by Steven Gonzalez Monserrate Read at Aeon | Continue reading
The codes of global economics are set by men. What if a feminist rewrote them to value peace, the environment and care? | Continue reading
Ancient Greek sculpture is pearly white to us but the ancients themselves wouldn’t recognise the statues in museums today - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
As storms, droughts and floods become more intense, what can the world learn from Japan’s profoundly wet history? - by Giulio Boccaletti Read at Aeon | Continue reading
Life can be better appreciated when you remember how wonderfully and frighteningly unlikely it is that you exist at all | Continue reading
The Universe is teeming with exoplanets – get an awe-inspiring glimpse of how their discovery grew, from zero to 5,000 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
A cheery mood, you might think, is a terribly self-absorbed response to serious times. But history tells us otherwise - by Timothy Hampton Read at Aeon | Continue reading
A stirring outdoor performance intertwines Yo-Yo Ma’s cello with the joy and mysteries of birdsong - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
Workers in the West have indeed been repressed – but not by immigrants. The policies of their own governments are to blame - by John Rapley Read at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Long Live Degenerate Art’– how the Cairo-based Surrealist group Art and Liberty defied oppression and censorship in 1938 - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading
‘Manufacturing Consent’ shaped a generation of media critics. How has mass media changed since the dawn of the internet age? | Continue reading
Inspired by Kant, Fichte launched a radical philosophical system based on subjectivity and aspiring to freedom for all | Continue reading
Inspired by Kant, Fichte launched a radical philosophical system based on subjectivity and aspiring to freedom for all - by Gabriel Gottlieb Read at Aeon | Continue reading
These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature | Continue reading
How an ageing couple keeps on skiing, thanks to their creative system for getting down the slopes now one of them is blind - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon | Continue reading