Stereotyping and discrimination in Hollywood has elicited different responses from Mexican-Americans and Mexicans in Mexico.

The rate of photosynthesis has increased dramatically over the past century. Plants have been shielding us from some of the effects of climate change.

Maybe you've never heard of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, but they were real-life women pirates who cross-dressed to get on ships.

Flash fiction by Grace Paley, Helen Phillips, Clemens Setz, Vanessa Gebbie, and Josefine Klougart, available for free PDF download.

Municipal water treatment just got easier, cheaper, and more efficient. And it's all thanks to an unlikely helper: bacteria.

Harvard Business School once attempted to apply psychological and political ideas to the project of saving capitalism from ruin.

Everyone knows the potato chip was invented in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1853. Except it wasn’t.

The Mediterranean island nation of Malta is the scene of migratory bird massacres twice a year. Why do they continue to do it?

In July 1863, over a thousand Irish dockworkers rioted against the Civil War draft in New York City in a four-day upheaval, targeting black workers and citizens.

Although studying the language known as “Anglo-Saxon” helped women advance in the academy, the subject is fraught with racist associations.