A team of researchers from Sweden, the U.S., Poland and the U.K. has found evidence that suggests the wealth gap in human communities goes back at least 6,600 years. In their paper published in the journal Antiquity, the group describes their study of skeletons in an ancient Polish graveyard and what they found.

The first atom bomb destroyed Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Just three days later, a second atom bomb flattened the city of Nagasaki, even though Japan had long been ready to capitulate.

The history of quarantine shows the many borrowed ideas from various religions that helped shape the first quarantine measure enacted in 1377.

Test positivity rates measure the success of a testing program. Even though the US performs a huge number of tests, high test positivity rates across the country show that that it still isn't enough.

In Ask Culture it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes.

The company’s founder says in an interview that he wants it to be “a window” on the world. A Republican senator says it is a “Trojan horse.”

In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe writes that settler Australians wilfully misunderstood, hid and destroyed evidence of Aboriginal Australians’ farming practices. My analysis of secondary school textbooks shows this behaviour isn’t restricted to the past — it is ongoing.

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Cities are segregated, and inter-caste marriages are vanishingly rare

The virus may have been born in South-East Asia. An intriguing observation: the low incidence of covid-19 in South-East Asia, particularly in Vietnam despite no lockdowns.

Thalu is a cheeky, post-apocalyptic adventure conceived, developed and shot in a small Pilbara town, and grounded in Ngarluma culture, language and lore.

A study published earlier this year showed that peatlands in Canada are drying up and that fires there will become more common in the future.

They are ‘the founding curves of the Renaissance’. As Yorkshire Museum calls on collections worldwide to display their best behinds to boost attendance after coronavirus, we name our favourites.

Scientists say we have time to save polar bears if we act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A wave of layoffs seems to be coming in the airline industry as new domestic quarantine rules slow the travel rebound.

If you’ve ever permanently lost a checked bag, your stuff probably ended up for sale at a store in Scottsboro, Alabama.

If you’ve ever permanently lost a checked bag, your stuff probably ended up for sale at a store in Scottsboro, Alabama.

Taiwan has reported only seven deaths so far from Covid-19. Everything is mostly reopened, and the only signs of Covid-19 are the frequent temperature checks and the expectation to wear masks on the subway. Here's what it did right.

Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s efforts

Scientists documented four new species of walking shark that they say have developed the ability to walk very recently. Walking sharks use their fins to physically walk along the seafloor rather th…