It would have been strange to read an article in the 1980s about Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika reforms that ...

(via Big Think) 75,000 years before the first city was built, humans were already engineering their world with a sophistication that continues to impress modern researchers.

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

(via Big Think) Jim Al-Khalili chronicles the technologies emerging from the second quantum revolution: Computers that exploit superposition to solve problems that would take today's best ...

(via TEDEd) At age 44, Xie Qiuping cut her hair for the first time in over three decades. Her impressive locks extended over 5 meters — earning the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest hair.

Whether it’s enjoying a podcast, listening to music or chatting on the phone, many of us spend hours a day using our headphones. One 2017 study of 4,185 Australians showed they used headphones ...

Low testosterone in itself can cause a variety of health problems, but the addition of a poor diet can exacerbate certain conditions. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) i ...

Garching, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Randolf Pohl from the Institute for Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), ha ...

Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

Whether it’s enjoying a podcast, listening to music or chatting on the phone, many of us spend hours a day using our headphones. One 2017 study of 4,185 Australians showed ...

If you ever complained about having nothing to do as a kid, our mom may have told you that being bored is good for you. And it turns out, she was right.... mostly. There's more than one ...

In this episode of Big Ideas, from the team behind Deep Look, Niba zooms out to explore one of evolution’s biggest plot twists: how eggs evolved, how they conquered land, and why ...