Vox reader Dov Stein asks: Why do people think the past was so much better when so many things have drastically improved? That’s an excellent question, one I think about a lot as someone who ...

Almost every aspect of modern life is affected by our connectivity to the Web. On those rare occasions when my internet provider has an outage, life seems to come to a standstill. Everything from ...

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.