Well-researched stories about the forest economy, eavesdropping squirrels, and more from publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Seventeenth-century scholars were horrified by how much ancient knowledge had been lost when the monasteries dispersed.

TV shows based on video games can't capture all the little minutiae that captivate gamers, like the map in the instruction manual.

The history of Native resistance, the philosophy of love, the medicalization of madness, color in fairy tales, and dinosaur bones.

What makes a name suddenly pop—and then die? Social scientists and historians have been puzzling over this for decades.

Lichens often go unnoticed, living on the ground, on tree trunks, or on rocks. They're hearty, but remarkably sensitive to air pollution.

England faced a generational divide almost 500 years ago, as the Protestant Reformation split the nation apart.

Fratricide among rival princes was legal and widely practiced until 1603, so confinement to the palace was actually an improvement.

The exchange of cancerous cells between organisms is rare. Scientist studied how it happened across species of mussels.

The cinema in 1980s Ghana was DIY. So were the movie posters, now the subject of an exhibition at the Poster House in New York City.