Culture
The unexpected science of everyday things
Science is a mirror that reveals sometimes hidden, often unexpected and always astounding insights into everyday things and human life. Here we explore everything you always wanted to know about holidays, food, art, music, books, games, TV, film, education, urban life and crime — as well as human history, archaeology and anthropology.
A mathematical model that visualizes echo chambers on Twitter shows how they coevolve with polarization on controversial topics.
This month’s pictures feature coronavirus preparations, a robot that catches jellyfish, and a calm cat.
Assyrian sculptures date from the good times when the water flowed.
The researchers hope to resurrect a variety of date that was praised in antiquity but lost to time.
What does the science say about the safety of America’s chicken farming practice?
New study presents new way to observe rate at which culture changes.
Estimates of animal populations made by local residents and field scientists are similar.
Wood from the foundation of a 2,000-year-old building in Rome traced to a mountain forest in what is now France.
The disease disappeared, but Anne Boleyn's ghost still walks the bloody tower.
Features common to the world's music may underlie a universal musical grammar, according to a controversial new study.
Beginning early Monday morning, Inside Science will cover the three most anticipated science prizes of the year.
