The international popularity of tequila threatens the quantity, health, and biodiversity of all species of agave.

Our ideas about surgically “correcting” intersex conditions go back to a shift in the profession of surgery seven centuries ago.

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

1877 was a banner year for American dinosaurs: three major finds in the West turned the region into a "paleontologist's El Dorado."

A lone resister is easy to take down, but there is safety in numbers, in conspiracies of silence, in refusals to testify against one's neighbors.

A midden is, among other things, a refuse site outside an octopus' home. (Release the Køkkenmødding!)

Letters from desperate mothers to the nation's first public orphanage.

A look at impeachment proceedings in foreign nations sheds light on when a sitting president is likely to remain in office.

The federal government pushed the improvement of emergency services from several directions in the 60s and 70s.

Animation workers took to the streets, carrying signs with bleakly humorous slogans. One read: “I make millions laugh but the real joke is our salaries.”