Some surprising lessons on how car companies' responses to product recalls affect consumer and investor perceptions. 

A new study on the Amboseli baboons of East Africa shows that there is a “sweet spot,” or optimal group size for surviving predators and gathering food.

As celebrity culture developed in nineteenth-century England, authors were at turns celebrated and celebrators of artists they admired. 

Trump's comments on deporting 11 million undocumented migrants have precedent: the forced migration of millions of ethnic-Germans in the aftermath of WWII.

North Korea has for decades tried to acquire nuclear technology, but international reluctance and a lack of resources have been their greatest obstacles. 

The "screen tests" can be viewed as an exploration of glamor and the gaze.

These 3 explorers dedicated their lives to illuminating some dark corner of the Earth. Although they died in pursuit of knowledge, their legacies live on.

Four new elements--113, 115, 117, and 118--have been added to the periodic table. But the search for new elements hasn't always been so systematic. 

William Lambert and George De Baptiste, free-born black men, used the underground railroad to help slaves escape to British Canada. 

JSTOR Daily's Livia Gershon interviews bestselling author and Boston College sociologist Juliet Schor about work and consumption.