Victorian London became obsessed with Ward's cases, which protected plants from the city's toxic pollution -- and piqued peoples' imaginations.

Many of us strive to avoid talking politics at a big holiday feasts. But in Homer's Greece, feasting was all about politics.

Tavares Strachan's “Enoch” was launched into space on December 3rd, 2018. It's the latest in a long line of artworks inspired by Egyptian canopic jars.

Cigarette butts account for a huge amount of human-generated plastic pollution.

New books and scholarship from University of North Carolina, Harvard University Press, and University of Minnesota Press.

Medieval monks used labor-saving innovations like the mill not to increase productivity, but to free up more time for what they wanted to do.

In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular—largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.

Finland's forest fires aren't as destructive as California's. That has more to do with climate and population than with forest management.

Scientists pinpoint poaching hotspots, but authorities aren’t always eager to join the fight.

Well-researched stories from The Boston Globe, Pacific Standard, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.