Despite the twelve volume herbarium she created, this seventeenth-century scientist earned little recognition. 

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What you were taught in elementary school about Native Americans not owning land is a myth. The truth is much more complicated.

Recently, the health of the honey bees has been a topic of some concern. But many scientists think we should actually be worrying about wild bees instead.

Museum exhibitions of Frida Kahlo's work tend to focus on her personal style and persona. But Kahlo was intensely political, as were her paintings.

When sex work was considered a "necessary evil," legal brothels provided certain protections for the women who worked there.

La Malinche was a key figure in the conquest of the Aztecs. But was she a heroine or a traitor? It depends on whom you ask.

Architect Mary Colter created buildings that incorporated local materials and indigenous motifs, blending with the environment rather than dominating it.

People are understandably reluctant to make much use of sewer sludge. Can rebranding human waste as "biosolids" change the public's mind?

A Curious Reader asks: To be or naught to be?