The anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis is the “quietest place on Earth”. A room so terrifyingly silent it can drive occupants to the brink of madness. In this Minnesotan facility

The Breath of the Gods: The History and ...

Nadia Shaikh seeks good company for a search-and-gorge to get her through the ruthless darkness of the winter months

I am camped high up among the crumbling volcanic peaks of the Isle of Rum, in the Inner Hebrides, sheltering in my tent from dense clouds of the hungriest midges I have ever encountered. As darkness f

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

Between a Constable resonating with Nature and a Castiglione blaring with turbulence, a picture by Algernon Newton captured the quietude of absolute stillness