A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
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Atomic nuclei form in minutes. Atoms form in hundreds of thousands of years. But the “dark ages” rule thereafter, until stars finally form.
In paint form, the world’s “whitest white” reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Science and technology were making early modern Europe a better place to live, but at what cost?
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
Freethink asks three different kinds of experts to answer this question.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn’t). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
The idea is to study the thing itself — be it a work of literature, death, family, a car, a vaccine, or the hospital — without preconceived notions, trendy easy answers, or dogma imposed on it.
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
Perhaps there was something theatrically satisfying about a learned man waving around a flask of pee, looking at it from all angles, sniffing it, and making bold proclamations.
Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.
From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
With no reliable way to discern the author of an artwork, we may eventually abandon the question of whether something was made by humans or not.
We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.
The toilet “is a portal to a mysterious otherworld.”
Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Studying neuroscience through art.
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the “most loving” cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.