In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

January 5, 2026 • Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is being held in the troubled New York City jail that has housed high-profile defendants like Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell and Honduras' ...

January 5, 2026 • President Trump says the U.S. will now "run" Venezuela after capturing its leader. Here's how the politics could play out at home.

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which they ...

Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood. By The New York Times Books Staff Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York ...

Did you know that that 50 percent of women in the U.S. age 50 or older will break a bone due to osteoporosis? Overall, about 54 million Americans have osteoporosis—a gradual thinning out of the ...