“What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France,” a book by the historian Mary Louise Roberts, documents rape and other misconduct among the greatest generation.

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The Broadway soprano Rebecca Luker performs selections from the Jerome Kern songbook in her cabaret show at 54 Below.

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While a recent article by Angelina Jolie about her mastectomy and reconstruction raised awareness, it may have left the impression that the surgeries are quick and easy procedures, some doctors fear.

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Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer are so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.

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“The Machine Age,” an essay written for The New York Times by Norbert Wiener, a visionary mathematician, languished for six decades in the M.I.T. archives, and now excerpts are being published.

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In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book, “Americanah,” the main characters find the race matters where ever they go.

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Brenda Milner’s work with an amnesia patient in the 1950s showed how memory is rooted in specific regions of the brain. With modern technology, she says, “we can see so much more.”

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Mathematicians have long believed that there are an infinite number of twin primes. A new paper gets closer to an answer.

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Alessio Bax and Shalita Grant are the winners of this year’s Martin E. Segal Awards.

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Designers focused on improving lives for poor farmers have a solar-powered pumping plan.

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