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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Rapamycin is potentially the most powerful anti-aging drug ever discovered. However, due to its unlucky history, few know of it.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Einstein's relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
Wealthier in resources; poorer in time.
The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
Nobody knows where the word "penguin" comes from.
Stone buildings in northern India reveal secrets of old structures that could save lives.
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
It's not about fairness. It's about using every possible advantage.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
John Templeton Foundation
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.
How one man's divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
How do physicists solve a problem like entropy?