Learn more about a global history of architecture in a brief manner, with the highlights on the most significant moments and pertinent styles.

People can understand these "iconic vocalizations" regardless of their spoken language.

Extreme weather is rapidly eroding the limestone caves where people first drew images 40,000 years ago.

When it comes to dividing animals along sex lines, evolution is known for getting creative. The chromosomes that determine baby-making functions have been reinvented so often throughout the ages, it's hard to keep track.

Scientists discover a new way to monitor airborne plastic particles. But do they harm bees?

By restoring ecosystems, conservationists can help the land sequester carbon. But it's still no substitute for drastically cutting emissions.

Your name is often the first piece of information strangers learn about you and it can have a surprising impact on how others perceive you.

Many see the sprawling Dandora dump as an insurmountable problem, but Nzambi Matee sees millions of super strong, super cheap plastic bricks, just waiting to be baked.

One hundred fifty years ago, Dmitri Mendeleev created the periodic table, a system for classifying atoms based on the properties of their nuclei. This week, a team of biologists studying the tree of life has unveiled a new classification system for cell nuclei…

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The biggest fish might not be from the biggest fish species.

Read an excerpt from Donna Stein's new memoir, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art."

Emissions of the greenhouse gas commonly known as laughing gas are soaring. Can we cut emissions from its greatest anthropogenic source?

By Kritika Chakrabarti, Junior Editor Knock one domino over, and you don’t just affect the first domino, but all the ones that stand in its path. The Domino Effect in economics is based on this par…

Florida State University researchers have more insight into a strange sea creature found in oceans around the world and what their presence means for the health of a marine ecosystem. Scientists have thought that salps — small marine organisms that look like…

Ancient societies were no strangers to warfare. But history reveals that only very few fighting bodies can be considered the elite military units of the ancient world.