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As editor of the World Happiness Report, few people know more than Jan-Emmanuel De Neve about what makes a country happy. He ...

Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia, revealing ...

Intermittently inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in ...

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our ...

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

An ancient continent that was once sandwiched between India and Madagascar now lies scattered on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of ...

The Loki actor is the unlikely host for a three-episode docu-series about the Roman city. It's occasionally a little silly, ...

Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along with ...

Coffee improves short-term memory and speeds up reaction times by acting on the brain’s prefrontal cortex, according to a new study. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to ...

Mandy Barker uses the same cyanotype technique as the botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins to draw attention to ...

Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to ...