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Whether plagiarism of homage, fan art is in keeping with artforms through the centuries.

In the middle of the subprime mortgage crisis, Satoshi Nakamoto was the first to publish the code for Bitcoin

Originating in Japanese manga culture from the 1980s, Cosplay has gone global in the decades since

In Tokyo, a retired gangster has set up a softball team to help young people keep away from organised crime.

As a child of the early internet, Matt Stephenson created Machine Girl as a mirror of another era: 90s video games, B-movies, obscure YouTube videos and absurd humour. 

Literature has gone viral and new young authors are big hitters on social media. Is this a passing fashion or a genuine cultural revolution?

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

Does make-up and masks transform us into the best version of ourselves?

In the 17th century, many Dutch women painters excelled at depicting the natural world in their art.

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

The city of stars on the steppe is the largest space launch facility in the world and crucial to the Soviet space programme.

A hunter, an activist and a tattoo artist:Three Greenlandic women talk about their pride in belonging to the Inuit people.

An old man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories resurface...