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Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late neolithic times - from around 5,600 to 4,000 years ago? In Europe, the neolithic is part of the stone ...

I remember my patient, a man in his 40s from a deeply religious community, looking out onto the East River from his room in a New York City hospital as he prayed in a language I did not understand ...

Across the world, fathers are spending more time with their children than at any other point in modern history. And the bolstered investment isn't small. In America, Millennial dads spend triple the ...

Excess body weight is known to contribute to a host of diseases, maladies, and physical problems, yet it hasn't been consistently attributed to the scourge of old age: dementia. In America, at least ...

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys ...

London is under water. The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are all submerged. Far away, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have ...

Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions. Sea ice expanded across the North ...

Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid revolutionaries of 1776 would have looked a lot like the people of 2026. But their ...

There's a habit of labeling lower-tier journals "predatory." The label is supposed to mark the bottom of the barrel - small open access outfits that charge a few hundred dollars, publish fast, and ...

Second only to black holes, neutron stars - incredibly dense star remnants - are the densest objects in the universe. When neutron stars collide, they create ripples in the fabric of space and ...