Last month, five large boxes were hand-carried from Alamos, Mexico, across the U.S.-Mexico border to Tucson, Arizona. There, ...

At first, Jim Reynolds thought it was a scarecrow slumped on the sloping bank in front of West Chapple farm, attracting the ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

Let’s be honest: turning 70 can feel like stepping onto a whole new terrain—one that’s both exciting and just a tad daunting.

As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place in the pantheon of ...

Scores of books by Francis, as well as about his life and papacy, portray the pope, who died on April 21, as compassionate ...

By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness.

First, AI renders a growing share of human workers redundant. If computers can do most types of work more efficiently than humans, what is left for humans to do? The threat of redundancy, which ...

Her politics were guided by her research and by her body, though not in that order. As Brett surmises: Bea’s body would alert her to “social problems that demanded a political solution.” Whether it ...

On his birth anniversary (April 22), it’s worth taking a closer look at how this revolutionary from distant Russia became a ...

Academic styles were more formal in those days, when only committed ne'er-do-wells grinned at the photographer, but this Stanner person is severe even for his time: good tweed jacket, buttoned collar, ...

The young waitress in the restaurant said Obama scared her. She just didn’t like him. It was scary what would happen if he won, she said. The guys in the kitchen had told her his father was a ...