History

Lidar technology reveals the surprisingly complex infrastructure and urban planning that united Casarabe settlements.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle proposed that humans are social, rational animals who seek to “live well.”

Although most people can name Einstein's most famous equation, E = mc², very few people can explain what it means.

Anesthesia, penicillin, antibiotics, diazepam, and the birth control pill have all radically changed our lives.

Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?

Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.

If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further?

Yin-Yang symbolizes not a conflict or struggle but shows that nothing in life is solely either this or that.

The collapse in child mortality rates is a testament to the tremendous benefits of scientific, technological, and economic progress.

Archaeologists used new methods to identify contents of Mayan drug containers, discovering a non-tobacco plant.