Five millennia ago, wealth inequality—which had stayed roughly constant for thousands of years—exploded. It has stayed ...

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and at The Flea Market in Laurel, Delaware, that old saying comes gloriously to life in a sprawling wonderland of the weird, wonderful, and occasionally what ...

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Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

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Get informed about the newest American opera being performed at the Kennedy Center—"The (Re)evolution of Steve Jobs." ...

Emotions can hijack logic, and rationality can suppress feelings. At times, these forces engage in an evolutionary standoff.

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In the early days of video games, few could have predicted that competitive gaming would evolve into the multibillion-pound industry we now know as esports. From modest beginnings in arcade halls to ...

If you are driven enough to step out into the world and capture it, you are doing more than just ‘taking pictures’. You’re ...

The concept for Roach Lab spawned from Proctor's animal behavior class. Several years ago, she won a grant from the ...