Bats have a unique genetic ability to tolerate many viral infections. Can humans uncover their secrets?

They crossed our path and we lived to tell the tale. Check them out in the Street Arts Graphics Collection!

Well-researched stories from BBC News, Slate, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Thanatourism, as one scholar calls it, has a long history. And some historic sites of mass death do offer thoughtful educational experiences.

According to archaeologists, it looks like worshipers of the croc deity Sobek bred the Nile's most famous reptile for mummification.

Subsidized housing promotes the kind of stability that makes it easier for people with type 2 diabetes to maintain their health.

The history of the guitar shows that musical instruments have been gendered—but just how changes over time.

Election days used to be raucous affairs, with individual votes sometimes cast orally for all to hear.

Many parents just assume their kids will turn out heterosexual. That's part of heteronormativity.

Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.