Unlike other world rulers, Genghis Khan was laid to rest not inside an elaborate mausoleum but an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia. Maybe.
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Horses pranced around the western hemisphere until they went extinct in the late Holocene. They were reintroduced by European colonists — though where, when, and how has remained unclear.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
Upskilling prepares today’s workforce for tomorrow’s opportunities, positioning organizations for success in the future.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.
Some of the most popular “anti-aging” diets show promise in rodent studies. But are they effective for humans?
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
The story of dog domestication is one of converting the wild wolf into man’s nicer, smarter, best friend. It might be all wrong.
The most technically impressive feats of animation often strike us as eerie instead of impressive, and it’s all thanks to the uncanny valley.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?
Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.
Once merely a theoretical curiosity, they might be the key to understanding so much more. Out of all of the known particles — both fundamental and composite — there are a whole slew of properties […]
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Like witchcraft, “racecraft” refers to a kind of magical thinking — one that treats race as if it were scientifically meaningful.
A new study suggests that private prisons hold prisoners for a longer period of time, wasting the cost savings that private prisons are supposed to provide over public ones.
Normally, the landscape in this photo would be a white ice sheet.
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
At its biggest for the next 15 years, it’s still much smaller than the Moon. On October 6, 2020, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth until 2035. Earth orbits in […]
This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.
Regret isn’t just unpleasant, it’s unhealthy.
Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
In her 2020 book, “The Alchemy of Us,” Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.