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Molecular model of a dopamine molecule (red) approaching a dopamine receptor D1 (blue) in a cell membrane (orange).

Dopamine, Hummus, and Iranian Politics

Well-researched stories from Undark, Works in Progress, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Wasp Viruses, Athleisure, and Humans in Flight

Well-researched stories from Ars Technica, Big Think, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A 17th-century map of Iceland

Medieval Whalers, Smart Plants, and Space Mines

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Nightclubs, Fungus, and Curbing Gun Violence

Well-researched stories from Vox, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Rice, Famine, and the Seven Wonders of the World

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Our best stories about the vast histories and cultures of Americans with ancestry in Asia and the Pacific.
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Smells, Sounds, and the WNBA

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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London Planetrees, Moon Time, and Dunning-Kruger

The best stories from Slate, Sapiens, and other research-backed publications around the web.
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Gaslighting, Greek Societies, and the Great Salt Lake

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, Undark, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Cloudy Earth, Colorful Stingrays, and Black Country

Well-researched stories from Sequencer, Southern Fried Science, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Animals at Play, Ama Divers, and Nuclear Power

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Cats wait for fishermen to feed them their catch on August 7, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Turkish Cats, Crow Pie, and AI DJs

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Total Solar Eclipse, 2024 Edition

A total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday, April 8. Be prepared!
Bayaka people in the Dzanga Sangha Ndoki reserve, Central African Republic rainforest

Mobile People, Asteroid Fighters, and Frank Oppenheimer

Well-researched stories from Nautilus, Knowable Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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A Night at the Oscars

All (or at least a lot) of what you need to know before going to this year’s Academy Awards watch party.
Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu

Shogun, Evolving Eyes, and a Feast of Drunkenness

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Celebrating Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women's History Month all March with JSTOR Daily. We hope you'll find the stories below, and the scholarship they include in full, a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.
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Woodchucks, Silk, and American Divorce

Well-researched stories from ARTNews, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
People wait for trains on the platform at Kyiv train station on February 28, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine, Russia, and the West: A Background Reading List

Research reports and scholarly articles on the history of the Ukraine-Russia conflicts of the past and possible paths for peace.
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From Jamaica to the World: Contextualizing Bob Marley

Bob Marley’s life and music intersected with Pan-Africanism, the Rastafari movement, and post-colonial politics around the globe.
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Calendars, Environmental DNA, and Unique Writing

Well-researched stories from Undark, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Wormholes, Baitfish, and Neo-Medievalism

Well-researched stories from Slate, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Endangered Islands, Parking Problems, and Feeling Awe

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, Eos, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
JSTOR Daily celebrates Black History Month

Celebrating Black History Month

JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.
The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory. The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen. Links Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image

Seeking Life, Boxing Parkinson’s, and Killing ChatGPT

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.