It’s not too late to explore our ancient history, and we can begin by grasping a better...
A horse-drawn Vancouver General Hospital ambulance / City of Vancouver Archives, Public Domain The story of an amazing man...
A 1964 Soviet stamp depicts William Shakespeare. “Stamp” via www.shutterstock.com Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon. By...
milliganpuss, Creative Commons We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as...
By Arjun Walia / 12.08.2017 Ancient civilizations are a fascinating topic, and it’s clear we have so much...
By Preston Chesser The loss of the ancient world’s single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of...
Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut...
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom...
The Vandals were buried beneath the awful weight of metaphor. Dr Case It might seem a stretch to...
With the addition of minarets, Hagia Sophia was converted from a Christian basilica to an Islamic mosque. Candace...
A particularly fruitful moment for technological innovation? Viktor M Vasnetsov Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised...
10th century CE Greek copy of Aristarchus of Samos’s calculations of the relative sizes of the sun, moon and the...
Wikimedia Commons What would have happened if the Patriots had been defeated in the War of Independence?...
Portuguese Fort Aguada, Goa, India / Photo by Abhijit Nandi, Creative Commons Beginning in the early modern age, European...
Video by Kai-Jae Wang/Harvard Staff Guided by Semitic Museum curator, students create ‘Dream Stela’ replica. By Jill...
The Plimpton 322 tablet. UNSW/Andrew Kelly, Creative Commons A 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet reveals an ancient method of constructing right-angled triangles that...
Marble statue of Roman Ceres or Greek Demeter. The Romans inherited their idea of human nature from...
New research using ancient DNA finds that a population split after people first arrived in North America...
UNESCO-listed heritage site Machu Picchu attracts around 1,000 tourists a day. Rodrigo Argenton/Wikipedia, Creative Commons Is UNESCO’s prestigious lists of tangible...
Detail, Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete...
Fresco showing a woman called Sappho holding writing implements from Pompeii Naples National Archaeological Museum. Wikimedia Commons Sappho...
Teeming with secrets… edella/Shutterstock European scientists had pioneered a technique for reading papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum without unrolling...
The world’s biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge. By Dr. David K. Wright / 03.16.2017...
Lucy, born 3.2m years ago. Pat Sullivan/AP It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a...
Photo by Sansibar, Flickr, Creative Commons Taking the red pill, for both the manosphere and the radical right,...
Flickr / Jaguar MENA, Creative Commons When you think about sports, do you consider the science behind...
Zhengwei Liu (left) and Arthur Jaffe are leading a new project to expand quon, their pictorial math...
Japanese soldiers of the Sino-Japanese War. Wikimedia Commons As Japanese imperialism rose and fell, its leaders interpreted and re-interpreted a single distinctive concept: “bushido”....
A landing craft from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E onto...
EPA/Peter McDiarmid After decades of deadly enmity, Libya and the West made a major breakthrough on weapons of mass...