An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

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In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

A species is the most basic unit that biologists use to classify living things. When people use words like “ant” or “fly” or “butterfly” they are referring not to species, but to ...

Pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and four fellow passengers are set to launch into space on a Blue Origin rocket on Monday morning. The New Shepard rocket, a 59-foot-tall suborbital ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

Riding the excitement of this week's premiere of the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime series, Kodansha has announced plans to release a deluxe edition of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin ...

The Fabulous Ordinary” is the perfect title of Georgann Eubanks’ new book. Its full title is “The Fabulous Ordinary ...

They have either examined changes in species diversity over time or they were limited to a single location or assessed a specific human impact. This has made it difficult to make any general ...

Apr 17, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Semley A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America. Apr 15, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Mark Chiusano Two new ...

Earlier this month, reports emerged that the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies had bought 2 million semiconductors from Taiwan's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. through ...