Centuries-Old Paintings Help Researchers Track Food Evolution

Art inadvertently documents the domestication of carrots, wheat, watermelon and other culinary delights.

Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

The two famous authors and great friends had two very different perspectives when it came to writing and having a drink.

'Poisoned Arrow' Defeats Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

A dual-mechanism antibiotic kills Gram-negative bacteria and avoids drug resistance.

Nostalgia Reimagined

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too.

Giant Spider

 Dines on the heaviest insects on Earth.

When Plague Is Not a Metaphor

I was supposed to be the expert. But when Covid-19 hit, I didn’t know what to say.

Conrad Black

Our ailing academia.