A biotech company wants to use stem cell therapy to restore neurological function in patients who have been declared braindead.

What tools would an alchemist use in the quest to transmute other elements into gold?

Deep in a Central American rainforest, ornithologists have discovered that a rare bird has an unusual lifestyle.

The writer Katherine Dunn died last week at age 70. Anyone who ever felt like an outsider found a friend in her 1989 novel Geek Love.

This 1965 telephone conversation between Malcolm X and meeting organizers in Paris took place just weeks before his assassination.

Globalization is the watchword of our time, but maybe Alexander The Great was the first global citizen.

Einkorn, an ancient grain, is mediocre for baking, difficult to process, and unproductive in the field. Why is it the next food trend?

When it comes to the relationship between people and soy—a replacement for animal proteins derived from soybeans—well, it's complicated.

Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. 

How forests and endangered species might be saved by artificial intelligence and game theory.