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The key? A computational flattening algorithm.

Using machine-learning technology, the genealogy company My Heritage enables users to animate static images of their relatives.

Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?

MIT professor Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict.

Legendary cartoonist John Groth’s pictorial map captures LA’s film factories in their Golden Age.

Researchers analyze prehistoric viruses in animals dug out from the Siberian permafrost.

Research shows that bone fragments of Jesus’s (possible) brother belong to someone else.

Pandemics have historically given way to social revolution. What will the post-COVID revolution be?

Waun Maun was an ancient Welsh stone circle that had an awful lot in common with Stonehenge.

A study of europium crystals shows the planet was mostly flat during its middle ages.

A new model of plate tectonics offers a chance to look back a billion years with new found accuracy.

More than a century after the end of hostilities in 1918, some battlefields of WWI are still deadly enough to kill you.

Some mysteries take generations to unfold.

The study found that people who spoke the same language tended to be more closely related despite living far apart.

A crash course in the history of money, the birth of Bitcoin, and blockchain technology.

Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.

Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.

Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.

User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.

Scientists use new methods to discover what’s inside drug containers used by ancient Mayan people.

Archaeologists discover a cave painting of a wild pig that is now the world’s oldest dated work of representational art.

The Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age teaches us about self-awareness.

Take a journey through the maze of interpretations of one of the most famous paintings in history.

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

Two new studies shed light on who first inhabited the islands, who replaced them, and how few people lived there.

Three decades after the demise of the GDR, its familiar contours keep coming back from the dead.

An archaeologist considers the history and biology of what defines a taste of home.

“The function of private media is to make money for the people who own the media. It is a business,” Sanders said.

Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what’s missing.

The 2020 election cycle is not yet as wild as the 1876 election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president.