About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base of Mount Hora, a prominent natural landmark in what is now northern Malawi, ...

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Anthony Smith, an experienced university leader and a scholar of macroeconomics and econometrics, has been named the next dean of social science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). FAS Dean ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

Is it possible to create the “perfect” expression of data on a map? William Rankin doesn’t think so. While most mainstream maps that use a jigsaw-puzzle-like format — solid color shapes separated by ...