They say that actions speak louder than words, but silence can be deafening. In the 1930s Hitler carefully forged a rise to power....

Over Christmas I returned to my childhood home of Hexham, an old market town that sits above the south banks of the River Tyne. The Tyne...

“No species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have... In our hands now lies not...

Like me, you probably think of yourself as a pretty environmentally conscious person. You have a food waste bin at home for composting...

As we move into month four of lockdown, life as we knew it seems little more than a distant memory. Life in this new covid era has thrown...

The 1970s was a significant time for gay rights across the world, but most notably in the United States. The Stonewall riots of 1969, in...

If you have ever taken a stroll through a popular dog park, you will have seen this classic sight. A dog owner strides purposefully ahead...

We are heavily reliant on insects as pollinators for the vast majority of our crops. However, rather ironically, it is the very...

It was an uncharacteristically pleasant spring evening as I joined the waiting crowd for the evening’s event, Thinking Through Animals, a...

If there was one phrase that you could argue defines modern times, it would have to be fake-news. The people over at Collins dictionary...

An ant scuttles through the rainforest. Seemingly brainwashed, the ant is on a mission to ascend the nearest plant and clamp down hard on...

Playing music requires the brain to manage a complex set of inputs and outputs. The brain must translate visual musical symbols into...