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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Warm relationships protect your mind and body from the slings and arrows of life.
In Einstein's relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.
One study suggested that the "Methuselah Star" is older than the Universe itself.
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
Some objects were softer than others.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Give yourself (and others) a break.
Has the "age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Despite being called the "dismal science," economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."
Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's are also found in Down syndrome patients.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.