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An anthropologist’s research on water insecurity reveals how clean water can reinforce a community’s physical and spiritual health.

To survive wild temperature swings, freeze-tolerant creatures can do something unthinkable to other species.

Turn your home into a supper club with these 6 recipes.

Germany has found ways to display problematic monuments without elevating them.

Famous fruits, including the Fuji apple, were the result of decades of effort.

Events like Tennessee’s Libation Ceremony offer a chance “to finally start grabbing the pieces that have been scattered and lost.”

It took Barbara Ketcham Wheaton more than 50 years to compile The Sifter.

Fringe beliefs, conspiracy theories, and the disenchanting of the world.

Here's what it takes to transform a field of corn into a truly enormous tardigrade.

The centuries-old offering was nestled inside an underwater stone box.

The game's long, weird, elitist history provides some clues.

Ever since COVID-19 shut down the border, Point Roberts has been neither here nor there.

This isn't the first time they've come in handy during a pandemic.

The stonemasons of the Freiburg Minster in southern Germany go to great lengths—and heights.

Bold colors and designs set kek lapis Sarawak apart.

A room meant for mops and buckets is now the best-kept secret at Mystic Seaport Museum.

While credit for the dish is widely shared, here’s how to choose ingredients that celebrate its Indigenous roots.

Coincidence and correlation in the stars, from the founding of Baghdad to the New York Yankees to COVID-19.