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Three Sides of Everest
There's more to a mountain than the summit.
Shaken City
Two years after its big quake, Christchurch is still trembling.
Spit and Image
The wonderful world of mucus
Spirit of Lake Superior
A lone cedar embodies the determination and resilience of the Ojibwe people.
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould
Human evolution was not a special case of anything.
Scorched Earth Policy
By clearing out vegetation, wildfires increase the vulnerability of soils to erosion and flooding.
Heated Debate
Global fires may have doomed dinosaurs and much other life after giant meteorite struck Earth 66 million years ago
Missing the Flight
Even at an early evolutionary stage, bird-like dinosaurs occupied different niches in the same ecosystem,
Galactic Beetle
Dung beetles use light from the MIlky Way to find their way
Voracious Evolution
Discoveries of more complete remains of cartilagenous fishes have shed new light on the prehistory of sharks and their relatives.
Sociable Killers
New studies of the white shark (aka great white) show that its social life and hunting strategies are complex
Sharks: Man-Eaters and Others
With suggestions that Americans turn to economic account some of the smaller species of the Atlantic Coast
Individuality, Temperament, and Genius in Animals
Research that lets us appreciate human individuality
The Darwin Celebration
Thunder in His Footsteps
The ghost of the most gigantic animal that ever walked the earth is conjured to life when a lone fossil hunter tracks down the first true footprints left by this stupendous creature, and thrills to the romance of a great discovery.
Fossil Discoveries in Downtown San Diego
A mammoth tusk is discovered during an excavation for a new building
Evolution of the First Flowers
Florida Museum of Natural History Study Provides New Insight.
Dinosaur Hunting
The badlands of southeastern Utah, home to part of the
dinosaur-rich layer of rocks called the Morrison Formation
Nature.net
The Third R
With the spotlight on ’rithmetic, there are now free online sites where you can practice your math skills.
Pain in the Knee
Alternatives to surgery for treating joint pain from arthritis
The Eyes Have It
An Internet guide to the importance of "gaze" in robot-human interactions
Iron Men
An Internet guide to the Iron Age Centic culture
Into the Field
Recent Stories
Recent Reviews
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science
By Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud, photographs by Rosamond Purcell
