Lydia Pyne's new book out this week, and related content you won’t find anywhere else.

Einstein's theory of relativity presented a direct challenge to the notion of ether.

Although sleep is ubiquitous for animals with brains, differences in how, why, and for how long animals sleep remain unexplained.

Congressman John Lewis's graphic autobiography March: Book Two draws on the richly textured oral history of the Civil Rights Movement.

In 1915, Dr. Benzion Liber published a book that described good sex, pregnancy, childbirth, masturbation, sex education, and venereal diseases…in Yiddish.

As a public figure, V.S. Naipaul is often outrageous, but his 30+ books speak eloquently in defense of civilization. 

The conservative anti-PC movement of the 1990s has its roots in a backlash against the Civil Rights movement.

Conspiracy theories boil down to a rejection of the absurdity, meaninglessness, and randomness of life and history.

Our editors pick stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. This week: microbiomes, Jamaican runners, Greenland sharks.

John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been released from the psychiatric hospital where ...