Like a lot of 16-year-olds, [Maxime Coutté] wanted an Oculus Rift. Unlike a lot of 16-year-olds, [Maxime] and friends [Gabriel] and [Jonas] built one themselves for about a hundred bucks and posted…

Not that anyone assumed differently

Keen to appear outward-looking and open to Western culture, in 1838 the Second King of Siam bestowed upon his son a most unusual name. Ross Bullen explores the curious case of Prince George Washington, a 19th-century Siamese prince.

How the children’s animation of the '80s, particularly those films made by Don Bluth, made room for sadness, and what that taught us.

A gallerist and an economist walked into an art gallery opening. The paintings on display featured the rape of dismembered corpses. The economist was horrified, but the gallerist said the work was good and the artist had a promising career. The gallerist…

Wonder Woman 2 will be the first film to employ the PGA’s anti-sexual harassment guidelines

I recently finished reading “The Design of Everyday Things” – a classic book that gets you thinking about everyday “user interface” around you – doors, gadgets, …

To better understand the distant past, it can help to taste and smell it.

We’ve been tuned into coin cell designs lately given the coin cell challenge, so we were interested in [CNLohr]’s latest video about pushing the ESP8266 into the lowest-possible battery…

One of the great thrills of curating our blockbuster exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, has been choosing the exhibits and revisiting some of our favourite manuscripts. When we were planning the show, I often used to impress people by mentioning…

SpaceX needs Air Force support.

The journalist’s war on the Russia investigation.

‘I wish I could guarantee that the positives are destined to outweigh the negatives.’

The dominance of Google, Facebook and Amazon is bad for consumers and competition

The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty evaluated hypothetical female and male applicants, using…

In post-coup attempt Turkey, being linked to a secretive messaging app has cost thousands of Turks their jobs, their freedom or worse, writes Nil Köksal.

Nike’s new shoes light up and are PlayStation themed