Did Ancient Humans Prefer Hunting Female Mammoths?

Fossil skull flattening suggests ancient origins of infant helplessness

A Battle Over Female Ambition

Odd shapes hidden in dense Amazon rainforest reveal sprawling ancient civilization

Increasingly “ancient history” is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture

Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact

Pentagon Contractor's Libel Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward

Open Thread

Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High

Why Do Psychiatric Disorders Persist in Humans?

Round and Round We Go

“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

Open Thread

Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

Open Thread

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate