A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore ~science biology.micro Article 909 words 6 votes
Inside the little-known story of the socialist Green Corn Rebellion, which blazed through Oklahoma a century ago ~humanities.history Article 3513 words 6 votes
The 175-year history of speculating about President James Buchanan’s bachelorhood and possible homosexuality ~humanities.history Article 2192 words 6 votes
NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life ~space rocketry Article 2538 words 8 votes
The actress who left the stage to become an American Civil War spy ~humanities.history Article 1648 words 8 votes
What’s in a name? A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places ~humanities Article 2195 words 9 votes
Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland ~humanities.history Article 597 words 6 votes
What responsibility do archaeologists have when their research about prehistoric finds is appropriated to make 21st-century arguments about ethnicity? ~science archaeology Article 1856 words 8 votes
The snakes that ate Florida: Biologists wade deep into the Everglades to wrestle with the invasion of giant pythons threatening the state’s wetlands ~science biology Article 6468 words 4 votes
The Stonewall of the south that history forgot: A month after the riots in New York, a raid on an Atlanta movie theater sparked a gay liberation movement of its own ~lgbt history activism Article 1316 words 7 votes
The invention that won World War II: Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults ~humanities.history Article 1329 words 6 votes
Smithsonian stands by wildly misleading climate change exhibit paid for by Kochs ~enviro climate change Article 2350 words, published Mar 24 2015 10 votes
One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach ~humanities.history Article 2034 words 9 votes
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw ~humanities.history Article 1822 words 8 votes
The paraglider that NASA could have used, but didn’t, to bring astronauts back to Earth ~space spaceflight rocketry Article 1737 words 6 votes
Poetry matters: In baseball, no poet has yet to do the game justice ~sports.baseball Article 1420 words 4 votes
Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim? ~humanities.history Article 3562 words 7 votes
Prehistoric Angolan “sea monsters” take up residence at the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC ~science Article 1040 words 8 votes
Hidden for seventy years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York ~humanities.history Article 2975 words 13 votes
In need of cadavers, 19th-century medical students raided Baltimore’s graves ~humanities.history Article 2010 words 7 votes
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History revamps its dinosaur exhibit, showing dinosaurs caring for their young ~science Article 1088 words 5 votes
Underwater archaeologists may have discovered the oldest known shipwreck in Lake Erie ~humanities.history Article 1587 words 6 votes
Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch. ~humanities.history Article 1114 words 12 votes
The 19th-century fight against bacteria-ridden milk preserved with embalming fluid ~food history Article 1503 words 8 votes
Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu ~humanities.history Article 1709 words 9 votes
Over 1,500 museums across the US will open their doors for free this Saturday, September 22nd ~arts Article 1146 words 13 votes
How Midwestern suffragists won the vote by attacking immigrants ~humanities.history Article 1703 words 7 votes
What Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos reveal about copper age medical pactices ~humanities.history Article 525 words 6 votes
The botulism outbreak that gave rise to America’s food safety system ~food history Article 1430 words 5 votes