Learn how residue trapped inside a Xerxes-era alabaster jar revealed a long-overlooked tradition of opium in ancient Egypt.

Collected by Cesare Lombroso and now preserved in the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, these ceramic objects tell an ...

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In school, our earliest moral science lesson taught us that “charity begins at home.” But the other day, I learnt a newer and subtler lesson in virtue. Humility, unlike charity, does not quite start ...

Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield, but the story of that assassination isn't well known. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Matthew Macfadyen about his role in the TV series "Death by Lightning." ...

A scientist placed a number of fleas in a jar and they immediately jumped out. He then placed a clear glass plate over the ...