A "new" Roman library has been found in Germany. What might it have had in it?

How worried should we be about bacteria with an alcohol tolerance? Be afraid, be very afraid.

We all know who Confucius was, but what did he teach?

Lab-grown lungs have been successfully placed in pigs for the first time. How long until we get to humans?

Hear Carl Sagan as you've never heard him before.

Richard Feynman wrote a lot of things. Here, you can read his most touching letter.

Why do secular groups often act like churches? The answer is simpler than you think.

It can be hard to understand why a person would be an atheist. Bertrand Russell is here to help.

You can name a dozen rock stars on drugs, but can you name the philosophers who partook? We're here to help.

The Galapagos Islands are among the most fascinating places on Earth. Their uniqueness has inspired science to make many important discoveries there.

Do the clothes make the man? With the Diderot Effect, material goods can help forge your whole identity.

Ever notice how people with conservative sexual attitudes seem to still cheat at the same rate as their more liberal peers? A new study says you're onto something.

Nietzsche had some harsh things to say about the worldview of the masses, but what did he really think?

There are millions of asteroids in the solar system. A new study might tell us where they came from.

A recent poll shows a third of Americans think another civil war is likely. How worried should we be?

What do we do when we know an infant will not have a life worth living? Philosophy is here to help.

The cycle of poverty can be hard to break, will early childhood interventions based on new neuroscience be the silver bullet we need?

Have you ever eaten a chocolate bar that was worth its weight in gold? If you lived in ancient Mesoamerica, you might have done it every day.

Half of all the antibiotics produced in the United States are given to animals to help them grow faster, should we stop this for the sake of our health?

Philosophers often get depicted like sages in ivory towers without a practical or human side. A gossip-filled book from the 3rd century can fix that.