News
The repatriation and grisly history of the Smithsonian’s ‘racial brain’ collection
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The Smithsonian Institution will begin repatriating a collection of human brains collected unethically and with the intent of proving white superiority.
climate change
Science Sunday: Major decline in populations amid frustrated approaches to climate change
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The World Wildlife Federation has released its annual Living Planet report, which notes a startling 69% decline in species populations since 1970.
cairns
Science Sunday: Conservationists and researchers say stone stacking has consequences
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Salamanders like those found in the Appalachian Mountains are threatened by stone stacking, a practice that conservationists and researchers say has real, even devastating, consequences for some species.
Paganism
New research challenges belief about medieval feasts
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New research suggests that the stereotype of medieval kings feasting ostentatiously on meat and alcohol while peasants starved may be overblown.
Paganism
Archeologists claim they discovered the famed lost Temple of Hercules
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New research takes a turn and finds what archeologists suggest is the famous lost Temple of Hercules.