As children spend more time indoors and immersed in digital environments, forest schools offer a radically different model of learning.

When considering cult dynamics, it's less ‘Is or isn’t this a cult?’ and more ‘how much cult behaviour is present in any group dynamic?’

Slang is evolving alongside and within a digital and social media environment that is increasingly driving what was once a more human process.

Science education is about more than preparing future scientists. It is about developing the curiosity, critical thinking, and discernment.

As digital culture explodes, people appear to be giving up reading books. Is this the cultural disaster it appears to be? Or something else?

Researchers observed intense violence between two formerly friendly sets of chimpanzees in Uganda. The findings may have implications for humans.

Stone Age artifacts in Germany are editing writing's timeline.

First evidence for tool use in cattle includes a skill previously seen only in humans and chimpanzees

In ‘End Times’ Peter Turchin examines the socio-economic factors that repeatedly throw societies into crisis and often violent collapse.

Whether it’s micromanaging playtime, constantly hovering or incessantly texting, the adult takeover of childhood has created a crisis of anxiety in both children and parents, says Lenore Skenazy, cofo...

Style-shifting, which describes changes in our patterns of speech with people, reflects the idea that we all have multiple personas.

Concrete underpins modern life—but its production carries a staggering environmental cost, with global demand only set to grow.

For thousands of years, the Sufis have been using carefully constructed "teaching stories" to stimulate and stabilize an expanded consciousness.

In some cultures, traditional stories or “fairy tales” have several functions spanning entertainment to the refinement of perception.

An American economist explains why the primacy of the US dollar has endured, while its future remains untenable owing to the debt crisis.

An archaeological dig on Naxos is overturning our assumptions about who Neanderthals were — and how they differed from Homo sapiens

Humans are hardwired for stories, which have served as diverse functions as encoding survival information to cultivating higher perception.

Batteries help to power the clean energy transition. But the current technology, along with several other challenges, has them falling short.

How different language communities describe and classify colors reveals the small differences in how they perceive the world around them.