Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story ...

This week, 28 Years Later hits theaters, two real-world decades after Danny Boyle first rocked our world with his savage and sublime take on the zombie mythos. I remember sitting captivated in the ...

Ancient civilizations A century ago, UChicago scholars argued that Western civilization began in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome—an idea that changed how we view civilization.

In the original black and white 'Godzilla' (1954) there’s a scene where the fishermen claim that the absence of fish in the ...

Current affairs note: at first glance, this text seems futile in light of the recent attack by Israel and the US on Iran, one of the new members of the BRICS+. Read carefully, however, this text ...

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

Meet Worthy of Armor, Don't Fail, and Hot Flanks, ancient Scythian names for woman Amazon warriors, now revealed on Greek vases.

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

Glide over Assos, the ancient coastal village in Kefalonia, Greece—captured in striking drone footage revealing its clifftop Venetian fortress, stone houses, and the shimmering Ionian Sea below.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions ...