Research suggests that certain things such as alcohol and the potency of the dose increase the rate at which users die from heroin use. 

The real life history behind the 1961 nuclear accident fictionalized in Andria Williams' The Longest Night.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has been occupied by armed militants since January 2, 2016. But where did the National Wildlife Refuge system come from?

What was it like to be one of the 186,017 African Americans who served in the Union Army during the Civil War?

Once hospital deliveries became mainstream, mothers have had to make a choice: a home birth or go to the hospital? 

Juana Maria, the lost woman of San Nicolas island, is as famous for her namelessness as for the lonely adventure she endured.

Society constructs women’s bodies as sexual, but mothers’ bodies as asexual—a quandary that presents a dilemma for women who nurse in public.

Caltech astronomer Michael Brown has proposed the existence of a ninth planet, the existence of which would explain the strange orbits of six KBOs. 

Whales have been used for everything but meat in this country. Why is that?

Complaints that the lottery is a regressive tax on the poor have been around since the beginning of the lottery in America.