The heroic days of deciphering hieroglyphics and cuneiform make for great stories, but will we ever see that happen again?

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Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe ...

The World Bank’s poverty line is inaccurate and out of date – an error that obscures the feebleness of market solutions ...

In Rwanda, 2,000 to 10,000 adults are estimated to have been conceived through rapes that occurred during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group. Despite the country’s many efforts to reckon with ...

In probing whether there are basic sex differences in humans, a psychologist and a biologist agree to seriously disagree ...

What is the highest goal our lives can achieve? Paul Tillich and Mark Van Doren’s insights from the 1950s are illuminating ...

With electron microscopes that magnify butterfly wings 50,000 times their original size, a hidden ‘topography’ emerges ...

Inspired by Japanese master artists, a woodcut printmaker is constantly reimagining the landscapes of his California home ...

Vova and Roma, two Ukrainian boys, spend their summer in the ever-present shadow of war in this affecting short film ...

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them?

Raina the Rhodesian ridgeback and Ruuxa the cheetah at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, 2015. Photo by Sandy Huffaker/The New York Times/Headpress ...