The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
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In "Dear Oliver," neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
Who doesn't love a little existential fear every once in a while?
Humiliating powerful people was not a key to success.
Opponents of America's entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.
Bathtubs and toilets each got their own rooms until health professionals urged architects to put all the plumbing in one room.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
The first stars in the Universe were made of pristine material: hydrogen and helium alone. Once they die, nothing escapes their pollution.
Diplomacy is war by other means.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn't just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.
Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a "school without a master" than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
There were at least eight other human species, some of whom existed for far longer than we have. Who were they?
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
Named "Supernova H0pe," it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.