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From Venice to Tehran to Shanghai, many cities are steadily sinking into the earth. There might not be any way to stop it.

Buddhism was embraced by the Beats of 1950s America. But some Buddhists felt these converts were engaging with the practice in a shallow way.

The dark, absurdist humor of Samuel Beckett's work was directly informed by his time in the French Resistance during World War II.

In the early-to-mid 20th century, foster children in Canada and elsewhere were placed in practice homes and cared for by home economics students.

It's taken scientists a long time to figure out what amber is made of, and what we can learn from it.

White American women have long played significant roles in maintaining racist practices. One sociologist calls the phenomenon "social mothering."

Since the 1950s, scientists have been proposing supernovae as catalysts for mass extinctions. But can it be proven?

The curious, forgotten connection between William Faulkner and Charles de Gaulle.

Efforts to fill the periodic table raise questions of special relativity that “strike at the very heart of chemistry as a discipline.”