Modern-Day Struggles

Children's attraction to dinosaurs suggests that the giant creatures appeal to something innate in the human psyche.

A simple explanation is that images of dinosaurs convey the excitement of danger while posing no real threat. From a child's point of view, dinosaurs are very old and very b...

A controversial palaeontologist thinks we might have all the DNA necessary to recreate dinosaurs - in chickens.

Scientists managed to tweak poultry DNA to grow alligator-like teeth and a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak. The creatures would not be recreations of a once-extinct species...

• Minimalism was about controlling the speed of the world, avoiding whiplash.
• Maximalism is about filling the long void of loneliness, boredom and isolation.

The past few years most people have been interacting virtually with other people, having ...