7 Famous Fossil Frauds
Explore Fossils are like prehistoric puzzle pieces, helping us to reconstruct the distant past. Normally, such mineralized mementos take thousands of years to form, at the very least—and only a…
Anthropology
A New Look at One of the Oldest Weapons
Explore Not long ago, Alexander Langlands started whittling sticks. The archeology feels a subliminal longing toward the pastime. “It's addictive,” he writes in his 2017 book Cræft: An Inquiry Into…
What Spider Games Say About Arachnophobia
Explore A fear of spiders, or arachnophobia, seems quite common around the world. Last year, a team of researchers published a global database showing the pervasiveness of arachnophobic sentiments in…
What Intense Rituals Signal to Your Brain
Explore What captured Dimitris Xygalatas' imagination, as a boy growing up in Greece, were documentaries about science and the natural world. He admires people like David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, and…