For over a century and a half, life expectancy has steadily increased in the wealthiest countries. Spectacular climbs in ...

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

The EU missed the turn to hard power largely because of a factor that is still shaping Europe to this day: the legacy of empire. For when, in 1954, it came time for the French parliament to ratify the ...