Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
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Six hundred years in the history of trousers.
Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that's often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.
The amygdala can hijack your brain's response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.
We all spend way too much time worrying what other people think of us — it’s time to cut loose.
The Athenian rich paid their taxes because they craved the social success of being perceived as "useful."
"Less is better" is not a catchy marketing slogan, but one doctor who didn't shower for five years thinks there's a lot of truth to it.
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
It's like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
We just observed the first ‘lunar formation’ in an exoplanetary system. This one image, above, is the first to show moons actively forming around a planet. This colourful image shows […]
The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it's coming into focus better than ever before.
In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.
The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing's test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury "only" reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
Here's why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the "Out of Africa" dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.