In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but only if we start soon “We can estimate from the extent of the scours and what is known about ancient sea levels that these bergs were probably ...

In 1974, Pamela Nadler Emmerich — then a teenager from Montreal — arrived in Jerusalem for her freshman year at Hebrew University. Not knowing what to expect, she signed up for a course on ...

IN most cases the presence of tannin is immediately shown by all the ordinary reagents used by the botanist for its discovery. This does not happen sometimes, however; as, for instance ...

Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast ...

This month marks the beginning of the fourth year since the pandemic drove the art community upstate, and, as readers can see from our selected guide, the gallery scene continues to expand and thrive.

BREWSTER COUNTY, Texas — An archaeological site in the Big Bend region of West Texas unveiled a trove of ancient weapons, making it “potentially the oldest example of an intact full weapon system in ...

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