Do you ever meet someone new and find yourself wondering what happened to them to make them the way they are now? Like, where is this sadness from or this anger or this tension in the marriage? How ...

A few weeks ago, I opened my high-school U.S. history classes with an innocuous sounding but freighted question about World War Two. Noting that 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of that ...

In one of his most famous paintings, the artist Paul Gauguin posed three fundamental questions: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Archaeologists have come up with reasonably ...

Previous models of Earth's recent (100 million years) geomorphology have been patchy at best. For the first time a detailed continuous model of the Earth's landscape evolution is presented, with ...

Caroline Winterer has been fascinated by dinosaurs since her childhood. She remembers thumbing through illustrations of prehistory growing up, intrigued by the distant past. In her forthcoming book, ...

In 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa pronounced that it was now possible to talk about the Gukurahundi era. Cautious hope stirred for many victims that finally they could overcome silence to discuss ...

When I was 42, I sought an autism diagnosis. Like many adults who seek diagnoses, I was inspired to do so because I am a parent and my children were diagnosed with autism. After my children were ...