Henrietta Lacks's "immortal" cell line, called "HeLa," is used in everything from cancer treatments to vaccines. A new portrait memorializes her.

Mother Superior Benedetta Carlini, a visionary nun of Renaissance Italy, was accused of heresy and “female sodomy.”

An interview with Arif Anwar, whose debut novel covers sixty years of Bengali history in five love stories.

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

As conservation efforts succeed, wolves, leopards, alligators, and other predators colonize new lands.

Online services like Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" have ushered in a golden age in survey research. But is it ethical for researchers to use them?

Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon offered a way to imagine more modern ideals of romance and sexual relationships.

Well-researched stories from the Atlantic, Longreads, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The graduation rate gap between black and white kids is a major issue. One organization emphasizes social identity, media literacy, and youth development in redressing the problem.

Could humans be responsible for the extinction of megafauna like giant sloths and mastodons?