A study reveals that London taxi drivers prioritize complex and distant junctions during their initial "offline thinking" phase when planning routes, rather than sequentially considering streets.
National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out of Eden Walk, tracing humankind's journey out of Africa, has crossed 21 ...
“Who are you people, anyway? What is this state? Who makes up all the rules and the statutes and the traditions? The people who are different have to stay away from other people who are normal. The ...
Part of that spike is due to rising rates of cancers that affect primarily women, including breast cancer and endometrial cancer (a.k.a. cancer in the lining of the uterus), Rebecca Siegel, MPH, ...
With scenes of utter devastation from California wildfires blanketing the news cycle over the past couple of weeks, the uncomfortable question arises: could something similar happen locally? According ...
Heavier drinking raises the risk for many conditions including heart and liver disease. It’s a big year for booze, both for the people who drink it and the companies that make it: U.S. officials are ...
An international team of scientists, including a principal investigator in neuroscience from the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has analysed the ...
The first page of Christopher Isherwood’s “Goodbye to Berlin” (1939), the novel that inspired the musical “Cabaret,” includes one of the most famous sentences in 20th-century fiction. “I am a camera ...