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Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.

We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.

Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.

The brain of an ancient bird offers clues to the survival of its modern-day relatives.

Here’s why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.

What do we see from watching birds move across the country?

Where were you when you first learned that there are plastic landfills the size of continents floating in our oceans? What should have been a wake-up call hasn’t slowed the […]

Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.

Today’s philosophy students would be justified in asking, “What does any of this have to do with living?”

What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?

It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.

Philosopher Peter Singer argues it’s time to examine a morally dubious practice.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.

Japanese thought can’t be easily characterized by just a few books — but this essential guide is a great place to start.

This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.

To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.

They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.

Don’t argue with science. Just do it.

Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.

For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.

The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity’s place in the world. Citizen science can help.

Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?

We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.

It’s spooky, and it’s happening all around us. And inside us.

All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.

Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.

Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.