Marked by a sta­ble cli­mate, the Holocene has been good to humans. The entire his­tory of our civ­i­liza­tion (agri­cul­ture, city build­ing, writ­ing etc.) is bound within the Holocene and its bounty of pro­duc­tive land and oceans.

Hid­den for cen­turies, the ancient Maya city of Holtun, or Head of Stone, is finally com­ing into focus.

A mys­te­ri­ous halo-shaped cloud was seen hov­er­ing in the sky over the city of Moscow a few days ago. Lest you believe that this con­firms your var­i­ous con­spir­acy the­o­ries, mete­o­rol­o­gists have ruled out any super­nat­ural cause: A spokesman from the city’s weather fore­cast said: ‘Sev­eral fronts have been pass­ing through Moscow recently, there was an intru­sion of the Arc­tic air too, […]

A spec­tac­u­lar and extremely rare tex­tile, woven from golden-colored silk thread pro­duced by more than one mil­lion spi­ders in Mada­gas­car, goes on dis­play Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 23 in the Amer­i­can Museum of Nat­ural History’s Grand Gallery. This mag­nif­i­cent con­tem­po­rary tex­tile, mea­sur­ing 11 feet by 4 feet, took four years to make using a painstak­ing tech­nique devel­oped more than 100 years ago. The […]