Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.

A Peculiar, Short-Lived Office at the Smithsonian Once Explored Reports of Bizarre Natural Phenomena From surprising squirrel migrations to islands popping up out of nowhere, the organization’s ...

Ultimately, I decided to set it at two institutions, the peculiar institution of slavery and the educational institution of higher learning that has roots in the peculiar institution.

Black in Blues, by Imani Perry (Ecco). This cultural history of the color blue, and how it threads through Black lives and “the peculiar institution of slavery,” opens with the indigo trade in ...

The researchers believe these “peculiar characteristics” reflect a greater level of trade and movement of people between the Adriatic population with other parts of the Mediterranean, compared ...

Anthropomorphism: A Peculiar Institution. Should we rethink the parallel drawn between “slave-making” ants and human slavery, and other such oversimplifications of animal behavior?

( But Civil War events is an approved “institution” topic.) Slavery, despite its historical moniker as the “peculiar institution,” is not an “institution” but an “identity.” And so on.

I’m proud because the college assigned serious people to examine our relationship to the peculiar institution that was race-based slavery. I’m sad because of what was uncovered.

“Let Us Descend,” the title of Jesmyn Ward’s overwhelming new novel, alludes to Dante’s “Inferno,” but her story tells the tale of a real hell on Earth. In one sense, that’s long ...

In truth, the peculiar Institution of racial slavery was foundational to America’s rise and depended entirely on classifying Black people as commodities that were both highly valued and sought ...