Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that ...

With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the ...

Kathy Nadeau, who has become known in historical reenactment circles for crafting quality period uniforms and costumes, also getting her work placed in museums.

“It is far easier to improve on someone else’s work than to create that original body of data in the ... Tornadoes” covered the period 1880-1989. That book sold so well that Grazulis was ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

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In celebration of our 50th year, we're looking back at some of our favorite reads over the decades. Here's our staff ...

We have trillions of body clocks — a central one in the brain and others in each cell of our body. Here's how they work with ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...

“Ladies and gentleman,” said the unlikely host, spitting blue sparks as he rose to his feet before a stunned audience.

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He died in 1930, without being concussed in the field of aviation, aged 74. He and his wife Jane had three sons and a ...