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In the 1960s, Buddhism found a new spiritual homeland in California. It was the last step in a transformation that began generations before.

The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the...

An estimated two-thirds of the world’s gold in the late Middle Ages may have come from West Africa.

He lost his best friend and Go-Betweens co-founder in 2006. Now the love of his life has cancer. Their creative response has produced his riskiest album yet.

The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades

Benedict IX was a scandalous pope who held the office three separate times. His pontificates were ones the Catholic Church would rather forget.

Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.

The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the...

Anatomy of one of least studied human organs could improve outcomes for women who have pelvic surgery

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a…

Horatio Nelson became a national British hero for his participation in some of the most important naval battles of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously…

Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction, and our understanding of the world around us.

Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from…

Often referred to as the soul food of Japan, gyudon, which literally translates to beef bowl, dates back to the 1800s. Its origin can be traced to an izakaya in…

What is the First Estate, part 2