The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the <strong>2026 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.</strong> This year, NASW is awar...

Against technological inevitability

On cities and strangers

Cinematic geologists are usually good guys—sometimes gals—but they have a one in three fatality rate, a film analysis show

Ancient Homo erectus teeth from China yield protein variants seen in Denisovans—and us

Architectural and geographic details match historic descriptions of the colonial, centuries-old jungle refuge

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Genetically diverse groups arrived in three waves, some potentially carrying genes acquired from long-ago Australasian ancestors

The peopling archaeologists are fighting again 👀

In which first contact between Europe and the Americas goes rather differently

New study argues Monte Verde is far younger than once thought, challenging when people arrived in the Americas

Discussing Laurent Binet’s alternate history novel, in which first contact between Europe and the Americas goes rather differently...

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Austin, Paris, Hercules, Christopher Sheels, Richmond, Giles, Oney Judge, Moll, and Joe

On culture and conformity

Reviews of three recent entries

How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

My subconscious’s bibliography

Not when the future depends on it

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A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Boo...

I’m into the Vikings now

A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies

Elyse Myers is famous for being normal—32-year-old brunette, married with two kids, lives in Nebraska kind of normal. Her press often refers to her as “The Internet’s Best Friend.” In her four years i...

Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species

Against technological inevitability

The production company behind controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood has announced plans with History Channel in the Netherlands for a new AI-assisted historical travel series. Streets of the Past is ...

Against technological inevitability

On the penacho de Moctezuma

Because the past matters more than ever