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In the past, "the pace of progress, once measured in generational arcs, now unfolds in mere years." This meant it could take ...

History never feels out of reach in the capital of Saxony, lush with avant-garde art, restored Baroque architecture and one ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

This approach naturally resulted in a library's worth of iconic quotes that have stuck with audiences all these years, either ...

The Humorous Heart of America Every year, we celebrate the birthday of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), America’s ...

"Dave the Potter" labored in the alkaline-glazed stoneware potteries of Edgefield, S.C., in the decades before and during the ...

The book opens not in Silicon Valley, but in Dartmouth college in New Hampshire, US, on June 18, 1956. The day when the legendary AI guru John McCarthy convened a group of like-minded academic ...

Donkor The phrase Deus ex machina, Latin for “God from the machine,” once described a stage trick in ancient theatre, when a god was lowered onto the stage to resolve a story’s conflict. But what if, ...