Tag: behavior & society

Back in the days of yore, language translation was a highly specialized profession, critical for coordinating diplomacy or international trade. ...

A new paper published in Current Biology suggests a novel twist on an old saying: Instead of "monkey see, monkey ...

When your dog perks up at the sight of their leash or the rustle of their treat bag, it’s easy ...

During their prime, the Vikings mastered the seas and went on to make wide-spanning voyages by boat. But how exactly ...

"New Year, new me," is a cliche, and yet, each year we set New Year's resolutions. Recent research says that ...

Taking five or six years to read 18 lines of Latin might seem slow. But the painstaking effort was worthwhile, ...

In June 2024, an Asian elephant in central Thailand gave birth to a set of twins. The event was considered ...

Researchers in England uncovered the skeletal remains of 37 Bronze Age individuals, and further analysis indicated that not only were ...

Even though today we have seen the burial of ancient cities as a natural progression of time, there were actually ...

It’s humbling to realize that much of high-school math, so vexing to so many of us, was already well understood ...