In this edition of Research Rabbit Hole, we dig up scholarship about what one academic calls "the signifying rabbit."

An important part of Indigenous spirituality and identity, the aromatic evergreen shrub is being threatened by poachers and over-commercialization.

Long before the imposture of Anna Delvey, the Tichborne Claimaint swept a nation’s imagination.

Reintroduction of the beaver may help mitigate the effects of climate change, but the obstacles between these toothy rodents and their ponds are many.

Well-researched stories from Quanta Magazine, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Earl Stewart and Michael Veal explore African American music from the Civil War and the evolving sounds of the Black Atlantic.

Cyclones, droughts, and other severe climate events produce a variety of ecological responses, some of them irreversible.

No matter how many words in a language, it seems that we always need just one more to explain ourselves.

Salvador Allende’s attempt to network the national economy mirrored his government’s struggle to balance centralization and decentralization.

The heated debates over Burton’s explicit translation of the beloved tales exposed Victorian England’s preoccupation with sex.