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Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...
Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.
An anonymous tracker’s joke about pizza deliveries near the Pentagon is now a viral theory with a curious following.
Today marks 77 years since HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex. Since then the vessel has become synonymous with the wider history of migration to Britain. An interactive map at the ...
Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small) countries ...
Sabine Hyland receives funding from the British Academy, the British Museum, the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the ...
Wildfires continued to rage on the western coast of Turkey as more than 50,000 people have been evacuated from impacted areas ...
The maps for June 5, left, and June 6 show a strong storm north of Scotland that would cause rough seas in the English Channel. via Met Office National Meteorological Archive.
AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world's most revered ancient texts, the Bible? An international team of researchers ...
When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.
A new study published in Scientometrics provides evidence that human curiosity—especially the kind that drives scholarly inquiry—follows a remarkably consistent pattern across time and place. By ...
There are a few trends worth noting. As the first European states with a major presence in the New World, Portugal and Spain dominate the opening century of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, sending ...