Birds, Bees, and Beauty

Adaptive Aesthetics

False Assumptions

A Matter of Degrees

Life in the Soil

Comparing the rewards of small-scale farming to those recounted by Thoreau

Planting Memories

Forget the opium, savor the poppy flowers

Holey Wings and a Holy Grail

Science has its rewards and punishments

baby gray whale on top of mother

Gray Whales Revealed

Discover gray whales in the isolated San Ignacio lagoon

Recent Stories

The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us

A true but unlikely tale

Story and Photographs by William Rowan

Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.

Genomic evidence shows that Denisovans and modern humans may have overlapped in Wallacea.