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Human sacrifice appears to be as old as humanity itself. Still, experts disagree on how and where the practice first originated.
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
But does Amazon know when you're tired or hungry?
What you need to know about this smallpox cousin.
Will nature or nurture win out?
Did traditional Chinese thought pave the way for the philosophy of Maoism?
Habit-forming rituals are subconsciously controlling your life. Here’s how to master them.
John Templeton Foundation
In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?
Data from the Zhurong rover suggests the Red Planet was wet more recently than we thought.
Searching for truth in unorthodox ways can be a valuable exercise. But Anatoly Fomenko's alternate world history is just plain weird.
The site will be the first working example of a geological disposal facility.
Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
Geopolitics is not a magic 8-ball. But making financial decisions — such as those regarding retirement — in a multipolar world without geopolitics is akin to flying blind in a storm.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
John Templeton Foundation
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.