On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our ...

In Homer’s epic, Odysseus’s men eat something so powerful that they forget about home. Which plants could have produced such ...

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 is now streaming on Netflix globally — US, UK, and Canada included — as of July 22, 2026, with ...

The cognitive evolution of Homo sapiens spanned millions of years, yet for much of that time, we lacked written scripts.

Diving into his mother’s tea chest to look at family history, that of the Galician Jews, and the History of Things that ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

At 22, Jesse Tjernell has already spent six years chasing ghosts — not out of fear, but out of love. His search has taken him ...

Calculating a fossil's position throughout geological history is a complex process. In paleontology and other disciplines, ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...