Articles by Natasha Frost

Celebrating 10 of the greatest things creatures did in 2017.

Who was Barbara van Beck?

For the first time, neural networks are imagining things they've never seen before.

You can learn a lot about someone from their accent.

The bird was almost twice the size of the largest living penguin.

For the tiny hamlet of Alwine, one bid stands between it and ruin.

"Who may keepe dogges within a forrest?"

Mobile phones are putting this ancient form of communication at risk.

Welcome to the molly house.

Good news for Neapolitans, however you slice it.

A philosophical and neurobiological look into the apian mind.

Under scrutiny, the image of the tortured genius appears to fall apart.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The final erotic cinema in Paris is closing its doors after over 40 years.

The many contradictions of a diplomat's daughter who wanted all her work destroyed.

And why some find it harder than others.

We've come a long way from 19th-century mummy "unwrapping parties."

A true relic of another age, when extravagant, overwrought blockbusters ruled the cineplex. Oh, wait.

Aircraft make surprisingly good analogues for the variety of sharks out there.

Finally, you can get loaded on soybeans.

In Victorian England, was there anything leeches couldn't do?

Sometimes it is not easy to fulfill a prophecy.

The bland appeal of the Broad Breasted White.

Update your holiday wishlist accordingly.