In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and ...

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore ...

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After 43 years of immersive research with the Northern Aché, an Indigenous group in eastern Paraguay, anthropologists Manvir ...

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

In the case of domestic cats, dogs and many other domesticated species, intentional and unintentional selection by humans ...

Old spy satellites and new AI help unearth the hidden bombs of Southeast Asia.

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For years, the so-called “cultural normativeness hypothesis” cast a shadow over efforts to ban corporal punishment worldwide.

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Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...