Browsing: origins

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR’s Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues…

They go by names like @TRUMP_ARMY— or @MAGANationX, and their verified accounts proudly display portraits of President Donald Trump, voter rallies and American flags. And they’re…

Two children, one of whom is dressed as a ghost, attend a Halloween party in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2010. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption…

New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss “Coach,” the latest addition to his popular “Track” series. The new story explores the…

A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that…

Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock’s paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time…

Weather forecasting was still banned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act when the Met Office was founded in 1854Forecasting the weather used to be less scientific and…

More than 7,000 competitors descend on Glasgow, Scotland, for the World Bagpipe Championships every year. Learn the history behind the world’s oldest and most distinct instruments.

A cow’s tooth from a jawbone deliberately placed beside the entrance to Stonehenge at the Neolithic monument’s very beginning in 2995 to 2900BC could offer tantalising…

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a curious hybrid: part Jetsons fever dream, part nuclear family therapy session, part cosmic horror birthing video. It ditches Marvel’s…