You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...

Hello Kitty is Sanrio's flagship character and the face of 'kawaii' merchandise the world over. With a name like Hello Kitty, you'd expect her to be, well, a kitty. However, there has been some ...

Usually, when someone reaches the milestone of turning 100, it makes local headlines and might even go viral on social media — but what if that became the norm? Reaching 100 years of age could become ...

Mr. Douthat is an Opinion columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast. Below is an edited transcript of an episode of “Interesting Times.” We recommend listening to it in its original ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

Let's all recall that in the Moon landings, no science was performed by the Astronauts. Apollo was a magnificent geopolitical success, but the science was in the surface sample returns that were ...

Lethally violent humans are not "acting like animals" " . . . it is easy to get the impression that chimpanzees are more aggressive than they really are. In actuality, peaceful interactions are far ...