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In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days...

In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics...

Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing...

Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up...

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....

By attempting everything, Dorothy Wrinch ended up accomplishing nothing. For half a century, this was the standard final verdict on the...