When Saint Ambrose of Milan was venerated, his life became public property, its meaning expanding with the unique interpretations of each new generation.
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Popular diets view health as a calorie-crunching equation while excluding a critical variable: mental wellness.
An unexpected finding shows us how little we know about the early human story in our region.
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?
You don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
The gaze of another person can make us conceive of our body as an object.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it’s everywhere.
Was this a moment when humans interbred with Neanderthals?
As far as we can tell, there’s no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
60% of all potentially dangerous asteroids remain undetected.
The European Union is debating over two lists of nations from which it will accept travelers starting July 1.
Your brain is bursting with ideas, and most of them are … weird. You only have to recall the wonderfully bonkers notions of your childhood. Like the time you wanted […]
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
The paradox of tribalism is that humans need a sense of belonging to be healthy and happy, but too much tribalism is deadly. We are one tribe.
Recent geopolitical turning points, like Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, were chapters in a story that extends decades back in world history.
Even with six months’ notice, we can’t stop an incoming asteroid.
A mile-high tower would not just be a new structure, but a new technology.
By toppling medieval Europe’s mightiest political power, the Protestant Reformation ushered in a new age of freedom, religious and otherwise.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
In some situations, asking “what if everyone did that?” is a common strategy for judging whether an action is right or wrong.
Although saying the wrong thing could often get you killed in ancient civilizations, history shows that the ideal of free speech has deep roots.
Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.
For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.
With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.