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If you frequently answer questions with “huh?” chances are you’ve been disapprovingly told to ...

In June 1993, the science journal Nature published the exciting discovery of the oldest DNA ever ext...

How can neuroscience be used to improve your museum experience? The Peabody Essex Museum in Massachu...

In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote: “of all the differences between man and the lower animals, th...

Would you like to take a trip to the year 3000? It might not be as impossible as it seems; in fact,...

How diverse was Roman Britain? For a long time, the mainstream perception was of a homogeneously Eur...

Quite when human language first came about is still something of a mystery. Nevertheless, most schol...

How do we define consciousness, and what would it mean for a bee to be conscious? Recent research i...

Have you ever wondered whether you’re stuck in a computer simulation; just a brain in a vat, a hel...

Can art be so bad that it’s good? It would stand to reason that we would appreciate art that is we...

Nasa’s Golden Record, sent into space in 1977 on Voyager 1 and 2, was intended to paint a picture ...

If you thought that medieval illustrators drew a line in their borderline insanity with little draw...