Shared meanings create institutions with real power. They also enable us to construct personal narratives that give our lives ...

Yet the must-have traits that people demand in dating filters are woeful predictors of compatibility. Humans evolved to evaluate potential mates face-to-face, taking into account hard-to-describe ...

It is called voting with your feet. The patriots who founded America either exercised it themselves or were within a ...

George R.R. Martin once said, "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." Reading books is one of the easiest ways to broaden your thinking and strengthen your ...

On Tuesday, visitors to Idaho’s Capitol were invited to hear a guest “expert” tell Idaho why it should not ask the federal ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

In just a few decades, mobile phones have gone from a luxury reserved for the elite to an essential tool for billions of users. From the first in-car phones of the 1940s to the best smartphones of ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. John Thune, the Republicans’ leader in the Senate, may introduce a stop ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Forked River, N.J.: Bad Bunny's halftime show was an inspiration for what the American dream can become. Ten years ago, he was a kid named Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, bagging... February 9, 2026 ...

Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and ...