Large power-consuming businesses were authorized to activate backup generators to ensure that sufficient power was available to serve customers in the storm.
Fire insurance maps from the 1860s to 1970s provide important clues into how insurance companies understood risk distribution across cities, revealing costly biases.
Some ocean viruses play a critical role in sustaining marine life.
Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with how people think about what is up and what is down.
The revered cultural practice now takes forms its earliest practitioners could scarcely have imagined.
Legends about Jesus’ early years circulated widely in the Middle Ages.
The commemorative coins reflect the country’s currently divided politics and views of history.
UT researchers have been recognized for transformative work on energy and materials.
Redesignating a National Park Service property as a national park serves political purposes and affects how visitors perceive the park.
Other primates can use their feet almost like hands — so why don’t human feet work that way?
The history of the links between white nationalists in the US and South Africa can be traced back to a sociological study from the 1930s.
With over 400 million years of evolutionary history, ferns can teach us a lot about how the diversity of planet Earth came to be.