What makes us human

Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens

Today, the Sahara Desert is one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. But it wasn’t always this way. Roll the clock back 7,000 years and the Sahara was a lush, green savannah, teeming with wildlif

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history

The mythology surrounding creative and scientific breakthroughs

When you think of dinosaur fossils, you probably picture parched deserts or badlands scorched by the Sun. But one of the world’s richest dinosaur graveyards is buried in a less likely setting: a quiet

The part played by beauty in sexual selection