Artists may soon be heading to the Moon for the first time, but art and space travel have been linked together since the beginning.

In Cold Blood changed the face of journalism. And yet years after its publication, we are still asking: how much of it was factually true?

Treating addiction can have a toll on doctors, who may find themselves confused and challenged by the addicts' behavior.

A wealthy country like the United States needs a solution for improving the supply and fairness of work overall. Is universal basic income the way to go?

Can empirical data about human behavior make the “soft” sciences more like the “hard” ones? New interdisciplinary fields are voting yes.

The St. Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving intact European book. Some time around 698, it was slipped into the coffin of a saint.

Temperatures and droughts have spiked at much higher rates in parks than elsewhere.

This grassroots movement brought occupational health to American labor, paving the way for the creation of OSHA.

Well-researched stories from Public Books, NPR, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Cotton Mather and other 17th-century American writers created a genre all their own: Puritan gallows literature, which both terrified and edified.