History

Many large mammals in Europe were close to extinction. New data shows us that the continent’s mammal populations are flourishing again.

Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize for "discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution."

Entire religions are constructed around theories of an afterlife, but former monk Stephen Batchelor lists three reasons you won't come back.

An undergraduate and his supervisor ran the numbers and found paradox-free time travel to be mathematically consistent.

Scientists trained a neural network to predict the movements of Mars and the Sun, which placed the Sun at the center of our solar system.

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?