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For an aspiring nurse, staying in the US holds out the precarious promise of a life far from China’s strict gender norms - by Aeon Video Watch at...
There’s a mystery of mirror molecules at the origin of life on Earth – and these scientists may have solved it - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
For an Iñupiat whaling crew north of the Arctic Circle, waiting on the ice for the migration of whales is an act of prayer - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Cosmologists understand what happened after the Big Bang. But what was our Universe before then? Enter the quantum multiverse - by Aeon Video Watch...
For a truly ‘naive melody’, listen as musicians try to mirror a song in realtime, accompanied by a dreamy animation - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Jumping the fire and shaking the house: a joyful beginner’s guide to the ancient Persian celebration of spring renewal - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Ever since astronomers have looked to the skies, they’ve filled their knowledge gaps with wild theories of alien life - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
‘God gave me enough power to fight for my rights’ – hear the voices of women across Afghanistan over a year of Taliban rule - by Aeon Video...
Capturing the daily routines of a chain-smoking Polish couple, this short finds an unlikely poetry in life’s mundane rhythms - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘There is a world of created things … in the least part of matter’: an introduction to the Universe according to Leibniz - by Aeon Video Watch...
After Ed Dwight lost out on becoming the first Black astronaut, he carved out a celebrated later career as a sculptor - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
When the flame of ancient Rome goes out, a Vestal Virgin is accused of unchastity and buried alive in a ceremony of sacrifice - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘Like colour-changing styrofoam’: a close-up look at electronic paper shows why it’s still a pale imitation of the real thing - by Aeon Video...
When Bauhaus came to West Africa – Tropical Modernist architecture as a response to the spirit of its people and its climate - by Aeon Video Watch...
Is a bit of shuteye on the job really such a big deal? A Swedish expat examines the Philippines’ sleep-at-work culture - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Born of two worlds – his native Somalia and his adoptive Netherlands – life is a wild, creative journey for Abdi - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
We’re not the only animals that can learn complex, problem-solving behaviours from each other – bumblebees can do it too - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A lone glaciologist performs spiritual and scientific rituals to assess humanity’s impact in Bhutan’s sacred mountains - by Aeon Video Watch at...
When scientific pursuits are subject to human shortcomings: the Indian scientist made to wait 50 years for his Nobel Prize - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How Rick Lowe transformed the idea of ‘art as an object’ into ‘art as a process’ to build and revitalise his Houston community - by Aeon...
‘You prefer to dine at some nobody’s house!’ How an ancient Roman responded to the deep sting of being snubbed - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Selfishness is an enduring part of the human condition. For Iris Murdoch, the antidote is to decentre oneself from the world - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘We’re both caught up in the music’: A hunter tries to understand his place in the cycle of living – and dying – things - by Aeon Video...
A father seeks to heal his community and find his granddaughter, after his son’s terrorist attack on Paris in November 2015 - by Aeon Video Watch...
It wasn’t aliens, but the first interstellar object found in our solar system still has much to teach us about the cosmos - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How a playful experiment, motivated by scientists’ curiosity, could have novel applications in the realm of quantum optics - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How medieval Christianity met humanist philosophy in Botticelli’s masterful Renaissance painting ‘The Birth of Venus’ - by Aeon Video Watch at...
The making of a revolution – the exciting history of the CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough, from the two women who did it - by Aeon Video Watch at...
‘It was a Boy Scout camp, and I was far from a Boy Scout’ – shadow puppetry illuminates a skater kid’s unforgettable summer - by Aeon Video...
‘If we have any chance at all, then this is our chance – that we become calm’: a Zen Buddhist meditates on humanity’s fate - by Aeon Video...
Before the clock strikes on new year’s day, meet the man who made it his life’s work to create singular celebratory moments - by Aeon Video Watch...
Orphaned by military night raids, a reporter returns to her native Afghanistan to investigate the trauma left behind - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour performance’ - by Aeon Video Watch...
Afraid of flying, Diego travels the world through Google Maps where he discovers a treasured memory from his childhood - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Emilio Ambasz’s pioneering designs begin with a recognition that nature is human-made, paving the way for sustainable shelter - by Aeon Video Watch...
From hearts and flowers to mean ‘vinegar Valentines’ – a fascinating look through the V&A’s cards archive from 1780 onward - by Aeon Video...
For its winter caretaker of 50 years, Yellowstone National Park is a fragile place, not the unconquerable one of mythos - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Medieval barbers didn’t just give haircuts – they performed a variety of surgeries, from tooth extraction to amputation - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Cryptic visuals combine with a haunting score to deliver a Socratic exchange on the nature (and dangers) of oratory - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In rural India, witch hunts are still an enduring, deadly reality. Ana’s disturbing story is just one of hundreds - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a unique New Orleans tradition - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
A year in the making, the elaborate, wearable artworks of the Black Masking Indians are a unique New Orleans tradition - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
The side-eye, the raised eyebrow – watch the sweet, peculiar rallies of a long-married couple in intimate conversation - by Aeon Video Watch at...
Fast, faster, or incredibly fast: an aerospace engineer envisions three possible ways we could travel to distant stars - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
In a message to her husband from the confusion of his sudden illness, Pilar reflects on the strange, tangled circuity of time - by Aeon Video Watch...
‘Our endeavours animate our lives, giving them depth and meaning’: what we lose when we outsource our creativity to ChatGPT - by Aeon Video Watch...
Meet Walker Estes, a Deaf prison chaplain whose advocacy was shaped by his daughter’s experience of incarceration - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon
Each snowflake’s unique symmetry is a beautiful illustration of the natural laws that govern all things great and small - by Aeon Video Watch at...
A bicycle seat, a shell and an ice cream, among other things, take the place of an artist’s head in some surreal vignettes - by Aeon Video Watch at...
How Bernini’s dynamic sculptures captured the passionate, theatrical mood of the Baroque era, and made all of Rome a stage - by Aeon Video Watch at...