The shape of the global economy in 2025 looks almost nothing like the shape it had in 1995, and the shape it will have in 2050 will look almost nothing like…
Somewhere in the cold dark water below the Arctic ice, several individual Greenland sharks alive today were almost certainly already swimming when the first…
When the first European ship arrived at Easter Island in 1722, the Dutch sailors aboard found something they could not explain.
The Murchison meteorite is, by every available measure, one of the more scientifically valuable single rocks ever to fall on the planet.
In 1950, the United States Census Bureau estimated that approximately 2,300 Americans were aged 100 or older.
In 1947, Philadelphia copywriter Frances Gerety scribbled 'A diamond is forever' on a notepad before bed. The four words rewired global marriage customs and were later named the greatest slogan of the 20th century — yet Gerety herself lived alone and never married.
The two-months-salary engagement ring rule was invented by De Beers advertising, not tradition. In Japan, where diamonds were absent from weddings before 1967, the same campaign set the figure at three months and pushed adoption from under 5 percent to 77 percent within a generation.
The line turns on a single word, and the word is doing more work than it first appears.
A field study on two bridges over a British Columbia canyon became one of psychology's most repeated arguments that the body can confuse a racing pulse with desire.
Across four experiments with flat-pack boxes, origami and Lego, people priced their own clumsy handiwork as if it were nearly as good as a professional's.
The quote has a clean, precise quality that most observations about fear do not.
The face you walked into the room with this morning was being read, by every person who looked at you, in the first moments of being seen.
The face you saw in the mirror this morning was not the face anyone else saw when they looked at you over breakfast.
Somewhere beneath a mountain in southern Albania, in a region called Vromoner near the small town of Leskovik on the Greek border, a body of warm mineral water…
Casey Harrell can now talk for twelve hours at a stretch. Two years ago, he could not talk at all.
Somewhere in a windowless data centre, in a country that may or may not be your own, a server is quietly storing a copy of every encrypted email you have ever…
