Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the ...

There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

Kerem Oktem is a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His book Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989 will be published by Zed Books in 2009.

Eldon Garden shopping centre in Newcastle is now a shell of boarded-up shops. Credit: Alamy On my lunchbreak I often find myself wandering through Eldon Garden, a shopping mall in central Newcastle.

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her latest book, Sex in Crisis, has caused a furore in America, where she has been accused of ...

Noor Zora, centre, and the troupe. Photo courtesy of Noor Zora In the heart of Punjab, a region of India steeped in folk traditions, Noor Zora – a gender-fluid 61-year-old – is breathing new life into ...