The philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s latest book looks beyond happiness as the goal of a well-lived life.

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Working with neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel, my laboratory at the University of Richmond has found that raccoons pack an astonishing number of neurons – an amount comparable to primates – into ...

Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr. appointees made their study a ...

Burials began in 1856 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, which shut down in 1996, More than 900 people are buried in the cemetery ...

Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed and ...

At Panlongcheng, archaeologists race against seasonal rains and hostile soil to recover a 3,500-year-old city that reshaped ...

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A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

A new study shows how one of the cell's most important energy-producing machines is built. Researchers at Karolinska ...