In the mountain villages of central-eastern Sardinia, men and women reach 100 at nearly the same rate.
This article discusses normative mind-wandering as studied in general population samples.
Fermented cabbage and a bottle of olive oil do not obviously share a shelf. In 2006, the American magazine Health put them on one anyway, naming five foods it called among the world's five healthiest: olive oil, soy, lentils, yogurt, and Korean kimchi.
In the late 1950s, when the American oil reporter Wanda Jablonski travelled to Abu Dhabi, the town had no hotel, no paved roads and no electricity, and dinner at the one expatriate household was tinned meat or, as a treat, dugong stew.
A country of 5.5 million people owns, through a single state fund, close to one and a half per cent of every listed company on the planet.
In February 2021, the Japanese government decided that loneliness was a matter of state.
A group of researchers at the Università della Svizzera italiana gave mice small foot tattoos in black, red or green, then watched under the microscope where the ink went.
A hot spring at the foot of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture has been feeding the same bathhouse since the year 705. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, the…
When an expert birdwatcher encounters a species they have never identified before, what they are doing with their brain is not simply trying harder than a beginner would.
Ask most adults over forty to list the memories that come back to them unprompted, and a strange pattern shows up.
The 1993 study was real. It measured a small, temporary gain on a single spatial task in adults. Almost everything the phrase came to mean was added afterward.
Roughly one in five people, on the current best population estimates, notices the buzzing of a fluorescent light in an office that most other people cannot hear.
The invasion had been building for a decade. Fu Jian, ruler of the Former Qin dynasty and a member of the Di ethnic group from the northwestern grasslands, had spent the 370s systematically conquering every other state in northern China.
In September 1942, approximately nine months after his marriage to the young Viennese nurse Tilly Grosser, and approximately four years after Nazi Germany's…
The specific Japanese-language word for the physical act of bowing — ojigi (お辞儀), literally "the honourable bending of the body" — refers to a substantially…
In June 1980, the Japanese sanitary-equipment manufacturer TOTO Ltd launched the Washlet — a new consumer electronic device that bolted onto the top of a…
