When Sir Walter Raleigh led an expedition to South America in the 1595, he and his men were famously greeted by a hail of poisoned arrows. The tips of the arrows were coated with curare, a poison made ...
UC Santa Cruz History Professor Matt O’Hara has received a prestigious $60,000 Public Scholars award from the National Endowment For The Humanities. The funding will support O’Hara’s research project ...
Researchers today announced the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an 'asterid' -- a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potatoes to petunias and our morning cup ...