It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking findings suggest a far stranger idea from quantum theory could be a deeper dr ...

Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...

"What did Cleopatra in ancient Egypt usually have for lunch?" I asked Grok, exploring the ‘thinking’ machinery in Artificial Intelligence (AI). “List your steps to the answer.” ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? the oldest known writing dates to around 5000 BCE. It origins are mysterious ...

Willie Nelson, and specifically his life on the road, is the focus of a new opus profile in The New Yorker. The highlights are many, but Bob Dylan’s attempt to explain the appeal of Nelson stands ...

If you were an ancient traveller, your bucket list would undoubtedly include the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. From the Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, these Greek ...

The sound of a choir performing in a cathedral is iconic for a reason. It’s this beautiful human experience: being side-by-side with other people, feeling the sound vibrate through you, reverberating ...

When a New Hampshire man heard a noise he described as being akin to "the house collapsing," he initially feared the worst—then he checked his Ring security camera, and that changed. There is ...

Whenever I’m in Greece, I don’t let a sun go down without enjoying a nice glass of ouzo. It’s funny, because I don’t even like the taste of that licorice-flavored firewater when I’m back home in the ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...