The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we need to ensure that it doesn’t kill us off.

Her picture books have sold 75 million copies in the past four decades. What’s the secret to her far-reaching appeal?

Archaeologists long assumed that the only lions on the continent were mythical. Then they started finding bones.

“New notions and new styles worry us, till we get well used to them, which is only by slow degrees.”