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How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
John Templeton Foundation
A new study finds that by having a plan B, we may unintentionally sabotage our initial plan.
Christmas may be Jesus’ “birthday,” but, as any mother will tell you, his mother Mary really deserves the applause. Providing the humanity half to join with Christ’s divine side, Mary volunteered to play a part from the Incarnation to the Crucifixion to the Resurrection as everything from an active participant to an interested bystander, depending on your interpretation of Christian scripture.
We don't learn from history because we can't learn from history.
The successful tactics of big-name leaders — including Bob Iger, Mary Barra, and Satya Nadella — reveal key approaches to innovation.
AI has become a black box in more ways than one.
Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
The problem with today’s AI isn’t it thinking for itself; it’s the tech telling humans whatever we want to hear.
When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that "moonmoons" aren't as uncommon as most astronomers think.
A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here's how the healing begins.
Despite being called the "dismal science," economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
Studying the display of personal wealth across time can help us better understand the history of socioeconomic inequality.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
No. No no no. Just... no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it's a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Horses pranced around the western hemisphere until they went extinct in the late Holocene. They were reintroduced by European colonists — though where, when, and how has remained unclear.