A long-standing preference for sons created one of the world’s starkest gender imbalances, spawning desperate bachelors and ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling ...

Trust is the cornerstone of a monogamous relationship, and nothing hurts quite like discovering that your partner has been ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Learning new skills is fun and exciting, but it can also be incredibly challenging and daunting. Most people don’t enjoy ...

Minoan Linear A tablets yield insights into the civilization’s economy and administration without the language being ...

What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...

Archaeologists date cloth with layers, dye residues, and radiocarbon dating. This method measures carbon-14 decay to estimate age, because labels rarely survive. The British Museum defines Egypt’s ...

Young adults who remain single throughout their twenties experience steeper declines in life satisfaction and greater ...