Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a group of Cardiatherium, a genus of extinct, direct relatives of modern capybaras, pictured in the late Miocene coastal

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Sławomir Łukasiewicz is a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland.

This year, nine UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff members were recognized with Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards -- more than any previous year. Every year, Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board selects American scholars to conduct research or teach abroad fo...

Join us on Saturday, October 10, for Neighborhood Fun Day: APS Museum’s 25th Birthday Celebration! This free program will take place from 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in the Jefferson Garden, located at 105...

The second 2026–2027

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workin...

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful ... is the great and most universal cause of our moral sentiments. –Adam Smith * One recent summer afternoon I receiv...

Cheryl Krause-Parello, Ph.D., and Nick Underwood, Ph.D., have earned prestigious Fulbright appointments, strengthening Florida Atlantic's global research and scholarly profile.

The 100 people shaping the future of art—and our world

YouTube video by American Philosophical Society

Utopia, Box 66, Daniel Kevles Papers, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA

In her new book, Martha Nussbaum argues that the art form offers an antidote to division, grievance and modern self-obsession

How did the Revolution and living through the experience of war impact New York’s women—and how did women impact the Revolution in New York and beyond?

The "Guns, Germs and Steel" author used “natural experiments” — deaths, hospitalizations and family shocks — to test when the corner office really matters.

In the twilight years of his life, James Selkirk (1757–1820), a modest tailor and Revolutionary War veteran residing in Bethlehem, New York, composed a memoir about his wartime experiences in the Continental Army. Selkirk's memoir tells the story of a y...

In his new book of photography, “Life Still,” a veteran observer of urban America makes us look twice at an unsung side of his talent.