History

Revealed by a Multidisciplinary Effort: History of Maize Domestication Not What We Thought: The domestication of maize, a process which began in what is now central Mexico nearly 9,000 years ago, was far more complex and nuanced than once…

A searchable, free database developed by Columbia University and CUNY provides insight into companies that made and sold toxic productsCredit: Michael DiVito Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest health care products maker, is in the…

The SNSF launched the two-part "Eccellenza" funding line this year instead of the previous professorships. It is aimed on the one hand at highly qualified young researchers seeking a professorship (SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship)…

Progress and setbacks mark the past 25 years (Washington, DC) - A new study of the progress made over the last 25 years in documenting and revitalizing endangered languages shows both significant advances and critical shortfalls. The…

Credit: Cambridge University Library The first book to take in 3,000 years of baby-making shows how women functioned as "vessels" in early ideas of creation, until the ancient Greeks established theories of "dual contribution" - whether…

Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes plague, in DNA extracted from 5,000-year-old human…

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed across the Atlantic on a largely…

Credit: © Claudio Merlini DR / EPFL-TSAM For over 40 years, tourists and people with kidney ailments came to La Buvette d'Evian for the healing properties of the region's water. This lakeside refreshment area - which measures 74 meters…

LAWRENCE -- African resistance strongly shaped Spanish Hispaniola of the 1500s-- now the island home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic -- but historians have often considered that resistance to be a byproduct of Spanish colonialism and…

Chiba University launched a new academic resource collection named "Chiba University Academic Resource Collections (c-arc) " which makes contents published and provided by Chiba University Libraries widely available on the web. This…