Remembering Stephen Jay Gould

Human evolution was not a special case of anything.

Great Adaptations

Research on a versatile bacterium provides insight into multicellular microbial life and tackling infections as deadly as those associated with cystic fibrosis.

Restoration of the Alewife

A fish that links marine and freshwater environments is finding allies in Maine.

Snake Oil Redux

Tourists are only encouraging  a dubious Vietnamese tradition.

By the Numbers

Is the twentieth century’s global technological leader becoming an idiocracy?

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Recent Stories

Even at an early evolutionary stage, bird-like dinosaurs occupied different niches in the same ecosystem,

Dung beetles use light from the MIlky Way to find their way

Recently identified subspecies ranges farther than first imagined: across Africa.

An archaeologist ponders the fate of Hoover Dam