People who keep every voicemail from a parent long after that parent has died aren’t holding on unhealthily, they’ve discovered that a voice is...
The Lasting Imprint of a Parent’s Voice
It’s a curious and deeply human phenomenon: many people who have lost a parent cling to every voicemail,...
People who keep the same four or five books on their nightstand for years without ever finishing them aren’t disorganised, they’ve built a small...
The Quiet Power of the Nightstand Stack
The books have been there for years. A memoir with a bookmark stalled at page 47. A novel...
In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded...
The Discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism
In the spring of 1900, Elias Stadiatis emerged from the waters off the coast of Antikythera, wearing a copper...
We picture loneliness as an old person’s burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults...
Rethinking Loneliness: Who Is Really Feeling It?
There is a mental image most of us reach for without thinking. Loneliness looks like an elderly person...
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone’s nodules are estimated to contain more nickel and cobalt than all terrestrial reserves — but commercial mining is still waiting on...
Vast Mineral Wealth Lies Beneath the Pacific Ocean
Four kilometres beneath the Pacific Ocean, stretching across the expansive seafloor between Hawaii and Mexico, billions of...