The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo signed only one of his works, the Pieta. The reason he signed it was simple, according to his biographer: He overheard people attributing the work to another ...

Microbes are the elders of life on Earth — they were here long before us, and they’ll be here long after we’re gone. They drive the biogeochemistry of the planet; without them, the composition of the ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen (who you can follow on Twitter right here). If there’s one ...