The Greeks proposed the idea that humans are a form of artificial intelligence. Prometheus and Hephaestus use technology to manufacture men and women. As historian Adrienne Mayor reveals in her book ...

You push back from the table after Christmas lunch, full from an excellent feast. You really couldn't manage another bite - except, perhaps, a little bit of pudding. Somehow, no matter how much you've ...

You push back from the table after Christmas lunch, full from an excellent feast. You really couldn’t manage another bite – except, perhaps, a little bit of pudding. Somehow, no matter how much you’ve ...

Lucy E. Hyde does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

It took many centuries for the basal ganglia (BG) to be recognized as specific brain entities involved in the control of psychomotor behavior. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was the first to delineate ...

I visited the Edgehill battlefield in Warwickshire last weekend. This was the first major battle of the English Civil War. As ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“Puppy-dog eyes didn’t just evolve for us, in domestic dogs,” says comparative anatomist Heather Smith. Her team’s work has thrown a 2019 finding that the muscles in dogs’ eyebrows evolved to ...

Neil Shubin recounts the discovery of an iconic fish fossil in the Canadian Arctic. The discovery of a 375-million-year-old fish, Tiktaalik, sheds light on a major transition in the history of life: ...