The skeletons of microscopic plankton that flourished billions of years ago may be causing continents to break apart, says a US scientist. Photosynthetic plankton have been around almost since the ...

Narrators of great events tend to write grand prose. But a casual tone goes over better with a lecture-hall audience. Walter A. McDougall has taught a course in modern European history at the ...

In this book, Giddens -- an eminent British sociologist, a Labour Party member of the House of Lords, and the man often credited with coining the phrase “the third way” -- seeks to renew the ...