The ‘Prize Papers’ Project launches its internet portal containing court documents related to the capture of 1,500 ships
A paper in Scientific Reports concludes that Homo antecessor had a shoulders development analogous to that in Homo sapiens, although its growth was faster
The main problem of the novel “Writers & Lovers” by Lily King is that Casey, the protagonist (the “writer”) is a very weak, shallow, and annoying character
A new study on the brain of Homo erectus analyzes its temporal lobes and compares these with other species like H. ergaster and H. sapiens
The almost proverbial longtime obsession that American writers have always shown to have for writing the “Great American Novel” seems to have found its perfect embodiment in the finalist trio of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired two important works by the Pakistani artist Lala Rukh: the collage Mirror Image, 1, 2, 3 (1997) and the digital animation Rupak (2016)
An ancient population of Arctic hunter-gatherers, known as Paleo-Eskimos, made a significant genetic contribution to populations living in Arctic North America today
A new tyrannosauroid dinosaur, Suskityrannus hazelae, was only marginally longer than the just the skull of a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a trend that will have implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future
Callichimaera perplexa, earliest example of a swimming arthropod with paddle-like legs since the extinction of sea scorpions more than 250 million years ago
