The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students ...

Tech titans Amazon and Meta each contributed $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee. The companies’ respective founders, ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

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The idea of interior design trends can seem a little nonsensical: the whole point of a home is a sense of permanence, while the fleeting nature of trends suggests the opposite. Then, there’s the ...

Clients respond in a bemused but enthusiastic way when I suggest sourcing a few things from Ikea,' says garden and interior designer Harriet Worsley (worsleydesigns.co.uk). 'I think they enjoy the ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

Now, one theorist warns that the human civilization of 8.2 billion people is at a critical junction: teetering between what he forecasts will be authoritarian collapse and superabundance.