In the spring of 1902, an archaeologist at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens noticed that a corroded lump of bronze, pulled the previous year from a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, had a gear wheel set into it.
The claim is familiar enough to have its own television franchise: the pyramids of Giza were too large, too precise, and too old to have been built by human hands, so someone from elsewhere must have helped.
We are writers and editors reading the research, not clinicians, paediatricians, or child psychologists.
He Yanxin died in October 2025, aged 86, in Jiangyong County in China's Hunan province.
Hygge has become one of those foreign words English-speakers reach for when their own language feels thin.
Almost everyone can name their learning style. Ask a room of people whether they learn best by seeing, hearing, or doing, and most will answer without hesitation.
We are writers reading the psychology literature, not clinicians or behavioural scientists.
In 2002, a team led by Becca Levy at the Yale School of Public Health reported a result that has been quoted in wellness writing ever since.
A young bull elephant in southern Africa has spent the past two years walking. Fitted with a GPS collar north of Sioma Ngwezi National Park in Zambia in June 2023, the animal, known to researchers as Z16, has since covered close to 12,000 kilometres on foot.
In late April 2019, Victor Vescovo took a two-person titanium submersible called the DSV Limiting Factor alone to the floor of the Challenger Deep, the lowest point in the Mariana Trench, and stayed there for about four hours.
The man who devised a complete writing system for the Cherokee language could not read a word of any language when he began.
The word arrives late in the book. Richard Dawkins, the esteemed evolutionary biologist, spends most of The Selfish Gene, published by Oxford University Press…
Elephants make deep rumbles that sit mostly below the range of human hearing. Those same low-frequency calls do something less obvious: they push vibrations into the ground, and other elephants appear to pick those vibrations up through their feet and trunks.
Put on the same rubber caveman mask a team of researchers once wore, walk across the University of Washington campus, and a good share of the local crows will start screaming at you.
A prairie dog standing sentry over its colony does more with a squeak than sound a generic alarm.
For a long time, chronic constipation carried a name that hinted, without quite saying so, that it was not a proper illness.
