A scholar of Tibetan Buddhism discusses how she challenges her students to rethink their preconceived notions of death, the ...

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

The most devastating tsunami ever recorded in human history also severely impacted ... de Géographie Physique (Laboratory of Physical Geography), reviewed two decades of research on tsunamis ...

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A child poses for pictures on a platform as bubbles are sprayed at them near a lit up Christmas tree, Ramadan Lantern, and Hanukkah Menorah. AFP via Getty Images For the first time in 15 years ...

Caitlin Clark raised the profile of women’s basketball to unprecedented levels in both the college ranks and the WNBA, and Tuesday she was named the AP Female Athlete of the Year for her impact ...

“It was a great year for women’s basketball and women’s sports.” Shohei Ohtani won the AP Male Athlete of the Year on Monday for the third time. Clark broke the NCAA Division I career ...

Only Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, and LeBron James have won the AP Male Athlete of the Year more times than Ohtani. Clark immediately made an impact in the WNBA after leading Iowa to the national ...

US national security advisor Jake Sullivan and Bangladesh's interim chief adviser Muhammad Yunus reaffirm their commitment to human rights amid escalating violence against minority Hindus.

Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”.

Eliza Griswold’s profile of an evangelical church riven by discord post-2020, and Greg Epstein’s observations about how artificial intelligence has become a religion unto itself, offer lessons ...

Meditation and religion, Shankar said ... praying or bowing down to the Divine without a deeper understanding of the human connection to Him, Her or It. Out of a long silence, I raised my hand ...