Our editors pick stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. This week: microbiomes, Jamaican runners, Greenland sharks.

John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been released from the psychiatric hospital where ...

Fossil fuels might get all the attention, but a recent discovery in Tanzania is a reminder of the other, less-heralded natural resources that we use.

Hieronymus Bosch died 500 years ago, but we can't take our eyes off of his paintings.

What the ordinary egg has to do with your refrigerator.

Is the New Age Movement only for wealthy white women?

In 1770, the average colonial Americans consumed about three and a half gallons of alcohol per year, about double the modern rate.

With the real possibility of the first woman being elected president of the U.S., let's take a look at the situation around the globe.

Colton Whitehead's new novel The Underground Railroad, and how he researches his books.

Leni Riefenstahl was the Nazi regime’s most artistic propagandist. She is also remembered for Olympia, her documentary of the 1936 Olympics.