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Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.

Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

Could medical detection animals smell coronavirus?

Here are five things to know before conducting a training evaluation.

The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.

When you unintentionally step on a dog’s tail, does it know that it was an accident?

Don’t argue with science. Just do it.

One of the world’s most isolated island groups has just been made one of the world’s largest ocean reserves.

Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.

For the Iroquois, it was a type of military training and a way to honor the gods.

Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.

Acorn woodpecker battles over prized territory are serious business.

The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.

Nikolaas Tinbergen’s concept of “supernormal stimulus” explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.

Across the world, wildlife is under severe threat.

Coherentism accepts that circular reasoning is probably the best any of us can do.

Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?

Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.

Never made a turkey before? Don’t worry, science can help.

University of Tokyo scientists observe predicted quantum biochemical effects on cells.

The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don’t know what they were for.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?

Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.

It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.

The opening of jars, while impressive and often used to illustrate octopus intelligence, is not their most remarkable ability.

The vaccine just passed its first clinical trials, but it has a long way to go.

Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.

History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But […]

Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.