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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 […]

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.

Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here's why.

Pokémon has people wandering the world to enslave wild and magical creatures so they can fight in painful blood sports. What's fun about that?

Setting resolutions for the new year means you think the future is up to you — but is it?

One of the scariest films of the 1970s didn't set out to be a horror film at all.

Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.

It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

The only doubts are completely unreasonable. Where did the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, come from? Over the past few weeks, there’s been a tremendous push — largely among politicians but also […]

"It's not always about agreement, more often it's about business."

This map of Europe's 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.

For the Iroquois, it was a type of military training and a way to honor the gods.

Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.

Never made a turkey before? Don't worry, science can help.

The problem is that what's true of magnets is not at all true of romance.

Some intriguing examples of people grooming the land for the unseen observer above.

Batrachopus grandis, an ancient crocodylomorph, may have chased down land prey on its own two feet.

New book focuses on some of the world's most peculiar borderlines.

To get a sense of faraway places, these 'atlases' let the locals give you their perspective.

The current focus on the Chinese and Jews is nothing new.

Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.