Chili peppers have a long history spanning thousands of years, starting from Mesoamerica. The spicy fruits have made their ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of ...

Villagers in Mexico just uncovered 2,500-year-old ruins of the Zapotec "Cloud People" on a 6,000-foot mountaintop. The ruins ...

Cervezalandia serves Mexican-inspired beers only, making it the largest of its kind in the nation and maybe the world ...

COLUMN. On Easter, chocolate brings together many enthusiasts. However, cocoa can also be perceived as a sacred plant, as ...

In a region packed with historically important cities, few can claim to have played such a long and pivotal role as Puebla.

Most accounts of the history of chewing gum take us back a couple of millenia to the Mayans of Mesoamerica who tasted the sap of the sapodilla tree and discovered that it did not disintegrate in the ...

Inequality, it turns out, is not a natural outcome of agriculture or societal progress but it is a consequence of deliberate choices by those in power.

A hidden chamber in Mexico's Tlayócoc cave has revealed ancient artifacts from a long-lost civilization, offering a rare glimpse into the past.

With such remarkable achievements, the center has earned a stellar reputation in the academic world both at home and abroad, attracting brilliant researchers from across the world over the past two ...

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.