There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...

Not so long ago, few would have disputed that David Hume was not only the greatest philosopher to come out of Scotland but also of Britain, if not the entire Western world.

David Hume (Image: free) Hume echoes the great Stoic sage, Epictetus, who declares, ‘if the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much, I will go.

David Hume certainly deserves his place in the philosophers’ pantheon, but when it comes to politics, he erred time and again. The 18th-century giant of the Scottish Enlightenment was sceptical of ...

David Hume was no racist – and university's rush to judgement shames it Two imposing statues, in close proximity on the historic Royal Mile in… ...