How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

A new theory says personal change is like geographical exploration. Just as maps expand when new lands are discovered, our ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

In a recent study, Dr. Oszkár Schütz and his colleagues analyzed 156 ancient genomes from the Sarmatian period, spanning the 1st to 5th centuries CE. The aim of the study was to clarify the origins ...