In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the ...

Despite five heart attacks, multiple surgeries and a heart transplant, Cheney still lived a long life and died surrounded by ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

From ancient philosophers who saw the heart as the seat of the soul to modern cardiologists mapping electrical impulses, ...

Every month, Emeritus Professor of University History Leen Dorsman describes something you must know about the long history of Utrecht University. This time: labs in Utrecht.

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

Although there is no modern counterpart for such a swift retreat, other researchers have found evidence for Norwegian ...

Findings show the unprecedented speed of retreat is similar to the dramatic glacier retreats that occurred at the end of the ...

Some of the most mind-bending episodes from sci-fi TV shows will leave you questioning reality, as seen in series like Dark, Black Mirror, and Lost.

Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian from Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. She is being honored for her influential work on the ...

Back then, that was common practice.But these days, there's an increasing respect for First Nations cultural practices and knowledge.How a song cycle led palaeontologists to dinosaur tracksOn the west ...