This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book by two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates on the need for compassion, another ...

T he point at which ancient humans developed the weaponry for long-distance hunting is a matter of fierce debate amongst ...

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian king has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable” discovery by ...

T he tomb of King Thutmose II has finally been discovered in Egypt, more than a hundred years after the Pharaoh’s mummified ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

In the shadow of Luxor’s sun-baked cliffs, where the Nile’s ancient whispers still echo, archaeologists have cracked open a ...

We often talk about water and how important it is to make sure it is clean and unpolluted. But lakes usually fall through the ...

A top performing London sixth form has radically reinvented its curriculum, promising to be more than just a results factory ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as “The Great Geometer,” have survived in an Arabic ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.