Invented in 1902 by an American, the ‘Middle East’ is all over the place.
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Global inequality takes many forms, including who has lost the most children
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
China’s dominance of the rare earth metal industry is part of its overall geopolitical strategy.
The fellowship’s journey through Middle-Earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
How one startup plans to use “death rays” for good instead of evil.
Pew Research Center data shows that most people think diversity improves lives in their countries.
That’s not frankincense you smell at the “holy of the holies.”
Trump’s Middle East peace plan contains the first map of a Palestinian state that ‘Israel can live with’.
There were at least four major climate catastrophes that reshaped global religion. It could be happening again.
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
The discovery may change what we know about early humans in Europe.
Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
One reason to suspect you have COVID-19 may be the order in which the symptoms appear.
Sleep less, sleep less, sleep more.
Sometimes called “the new gold,” sand is the second most exploited natural resource in the world after fresh water.
There is no going “back to normal.”
A new children’s program may help displaced Syrian children find stability and belonging in their new communities.
Modern crops have been optimized for a lot of things, but not for climate change.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
The Crab Nebula goes back to 1054, opening a window into our cosmic past. On July 4, 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in the Taurus constellation. A ‘guest star’ […]
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.