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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
"Of course, the spleen is the biggest organ in the body."
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History’s most remarkable leaders had this one trait in common. We can harness it too.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
"Painfully forced" is how one contemporary critic described Fitzgerald's writing style.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
If stars don't go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
If you're a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren't any neutrinos slow?
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
In a state of "hyperwar," accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
Unless you confront your theory with what's actually out there in the Universe, you're playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.
There's a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.