Fungi have quietly shaped the trajectory of human civilization, from the diets of Paleolithic foragers to the beer in modern glasses and the experimental psychiatric drugs now in clinical trials. The ...

In today’s Gospel reading, John the evangelist recounts the second instance of the eternal world breaking into the transitory ...

Human history is not what we thought. Recent discoveries are forcing scientists to push timelines back by thousands-and even tens of thousands-of years. Footprints dated to 23,000 years ago suggest ...

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What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in human history and even more recent as a number. It wasn't until around the 7th ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The historian Rob Boddice sat cross-legged on his couch in Montreal on a frigid day last winter and conjured ...