In the TV show House of Cards, there is a scene in which a group of monks work on a giant piece of work in the White House every single day for a month, painstakingly funnelling different colours of ...

We humans have always had a fascination with the circle. We experience it throughout nature—in the spiral of the Milky Way, the orbiting planets, and the cycles of life itself. As children, we also ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. We humans have always had a ...