The Academic

A smart way to cut down on e-waste by putting unused phones to work on real computing tasks

Recent study mapping genetic migration routes into South America reveals previously unknown lineage

Why sleeping in a box bed made perfect sense back then

Three research-backed reasons to be calm in the face of failure

Excavations at Ghozza mine revealed 2,300-year-old restraints, confirming historical accounts that at least some gold miners were slaves

Yellow warblers near busy roads become increasingly aggressive when traffic drowns out their territorial songs, and noise pollution could…

New study examines rare female execution from 9th century London using modern forensic techniques

On minds as abstract, overlapping perspectives

New study challenges sacrifice interpretations of dismembered remains in Maya burials, revealing ancestral placemaking practices among…

How some insects use the starry sky to navigate

New study analyzes six 19th-century Dahomean swords to determine if they have an African provenance