Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
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What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
You can love a romantic partner, but also a pet, a book, God, or the sound of someone’s voice. We need many more words for love.
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
There is no sure-fire formula for success, but you can be better prepared to create your own.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
For relatives who live far apart, holiday rituals may be the glue that holds the family together.
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?