The sublime underlies the nobility of Classicism, the awe of Romantic nature, and the terror of the Gothic.

Researchers think a sacred language inscribed in cuneiform on the tablet suggest the Hittite king visited or lived where the tablet was found in Turkey.

Satellite images analysed by researchers show first evidence of patterns of looting

The revelation comes from the new Elon Musk biography, where he suggested that cabin cameras be used to prevail in autopilot investigations.

Experts described the accelerated growth of the flowers in Antarctica's South Orkney Islands due to climate change as a 'tipping point'

Lice are incredibly specialized to their habitats; a type that evolved to grasp human head hair wouldn’t survive among human pubic hair, for example. But before our ancestors lost their fur, those lice probably roamed all over their bodies. So, by looking at DNA to unravel the evolutionary history o...

How an intense longing for a romantic connection can lead to a serious addiction.

For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses.

"I am 20 minutes into the presentation when a woman interrupts me. 'When are you going to talk about God in all of this?' she asks."

“Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More

To understand its strengths and limitations, we may need to adopt a new perspective.

For decades, the organization has maintained a system that protects everything from Ukrainian borscht to Jamaican reggae. But what does it mean to “safeguard” living culture?

Cats are present in 99.9% of all land in Australia and kill about two billion other animals a year. That makes them Australia's most invasive species.

Learned helplessness occurs when an individual continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation and stops trying to change their circumstances, even when they have the ability to do so. For example, a smoker may repeatedly try and fail to quit. He may grow frustrated and come to believe that ...

Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people.

He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh?

Political elites, both on the Right and on the Left, seem to agree on the necessity of constant economic growth, even at the cost of ecological catastrophe. They say we need growth in order to deal with present social problems, but can it be that this narrative is a fallacy?

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a higher level of cognition and cultural development than ...

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

Illegal cannabis farms are engulfing parts of California and exploiting farmworkers who labor in squalid, deadly conditions, a Times investigation finds.

Some honey producers make fake or adulterated honey with corn syrup and other sugars. It could be in a lot of your food.

Scientists discover how Danionella cerebrum, measuring width of adult human fingernail, can create noises exceeding 140 decibels

The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead

Can one rollicking party in Mississippi hill country keep some of America’s oldest music alive?

Thanks to the beauty of human error, Radiolab podcasters managed to name a moon.