Stories by Petiver

St. Cuthbert's Beads

Why do some humans love chili peppers?

Our long, vulnerable childhoods may be the key to our success

What Our Fantasies About the European Middle Ages Say About Us

A High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science

Nephromyces: A mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a kidney

Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion

Manned Orbiting Laboratory

Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–1795)

Revising the History of DDT’s Long-Tailed Legacy

Wielding Wheat

Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular anymore

The role of patients and professionals in the definition of schizophrenia

A new exhibit focuses on the Egyptian team who worked on finding King Tut’s tomb

Sabertooth carcass consumption behavior and Pleistocene large carnivoran guilds

Scientists Uncover a Shady Web of Online Spider Sales

How I Started to See Trees as Smart

Plague, Crisis, and Science During the London Caterpillar Outbreak of 1782

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Who invented modern political satire?

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