It's hip, it's happening, it's wow, it's now, it's gone: RIP the paper dress, 1966–1968.

Trees in cities have the ability to sequester carbon, provide shade, and mitigate flooding. But no one tree fits all environments.

Hildegard von Bingen wrote medical texts describing how to prepare abortifacients.

In 1943, white servicemen attacked young people of color for wearing the ultimate in street style—on the pretext that they were shirking wartime duty.

Well-researched stories from Live Science, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Although many archaeologists are trained to prize objectivity, Indigenous scholars approach research with a different sort of grounding.

In the hands of performers known as cancionistas, the genre known for its machismo was transformed.

Un análisis químico de una área puede determinar cuánta contaminación hay en el aire. Pero hay un método mucho menos costoso que podría ayudar a las comunidades más pobres.

A chemical analysis of an area can find out how much pollution is in the air. But there's a much less expensive method that could help poorer communities.

In 1980, the policy of denying entry into the US based on homosexuality ran smack into anticommunism.