The domestication of plants and animals is often framed as a cornerstone of civilization. It’s the moment, we’re told, when our ancestors turned from the ...
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Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 percent of all elements heavier ...
Baking and devouring loaf after loaf of sourdough bread is all well and good. But do you know where sourdough came from? Sit back and absorb the brief ...
Editor’s note: This is the eighth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here By Christopher ...
Millions of years ago, as the isolated landmass drifted across the Tethys Ocean, a tiny, four-legged deer-like creature traversed the remotest corners of ...
The gentle ripple of water stills as we stand at the edge where life transitions to death. When we encounter a dead duck in our path or ...
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson‘s Made in China examines the development of the trade partnership between the US and China after the Cold War, ushered in by ...
A Puzzle in the PermafrostIn the quiet hills near Medzhybizh, a small Ukrainian town nestled along the Southern Bug River, something unexpected has emerged ...
An exhibition at London's Warburg Institute traces tarot decks' evolution from the 1450s through the present
Generation Z is putting its own spin on knafeh, a dish first designed to quash a caliph's hunger pangs
