Books are an important part of our cultural genome, the information that we pass on from generation to generation. "Culturomics" studies the evolution of human culture quantitatively, in this instance ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Researchers have created a powerful new approach to scholarship, using approximately 4 percent of all books ever published as a digital "fossil record" of human culture. By ...

The Sao Paulo state government decided this week to largely replace textbooks with e-books in high schools, sparking a row in Brazil, where education experts and publishers warned the move could have ...

Just as no two snowflakes are alike, neither are exhibits about "Snowflake" Bentley, and there's always more to discover. London's Natural History Museum has digitized one of Wilson Bentley's books of ...

We’ve all been told to “stay motivated” when chasing our goals, as if success were a matter of enthusiasm alone. Yet science has been quietly rewriting that story. From behavioural psychology to ...