Xu Zhongou, a contemporary Chinese printmaker and art educator, talks during a dialogue at the MEMOR Museum in New York on May 25. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A quietness fills the room. Only the ...

More than 50 years ago, Jane Goodall stunned the scientific community by reporting that chimpanzees in Tanzania were using tools, inserting twigs into termite mounds to extract the insects. This ...

If you want to know a political leader’s governing philosophy, you could cut through a lot of bluster by just asking them who their guy is: John Locke or Thomas Hobbes? Anyone who’s taken Poli Sci 101 ...

Johan Kjellberg Jensen received funding from the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC), funded by the Government of Sweden, and funding from The ...

Whether standing on a windswept hilltop, a sandy beach or in the dappled sunlight of a forest glade, being in nature can bring a tremendous sense of well-being. Connecting with the natural world is ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

The Origins of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations, by Nicholas Wade (HarperCollins, 256 pp., $32.00) No matter how he lands on one’s radar, Wade is worth reading. His ...

Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

New research suggests that the pressures of contemporary life may be pushing human biology into unfamiliar territory, activating ancient physiological systems in ways they were never meant to operate.

Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Victoria Chamberlin Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” ...