Philosopher, theologian and former presidential candidate Cornel West spoke on intellectual history in a lecture to students in the Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program at Florence Moore Hall ...

Martin B. Richards received funding from the European Research Council's ACROSS (Australian Colonisation Research: Origins of Seafaring to Sahul) grant to Professor Helen Farr under the European Union ...

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published a book called What Is Life?. The physicist, famous for his alive-and-dead cat, clearly relished a brainteaser. Today, there is still no good definition. Life is ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA is helping to fill in the blanks, and the findings shake up ...

The DNA of ancient individuals dating to between 10,000 and 150 years ago reveals the existence of a long-standing, yet previously uncharacterized, lineage in the Southern Cone of South America — a ...