Features
June 2017
Detecting the Next Volcanic Eruption
Satellite monitoring and networks of instruments on the ground can detect, but not predict, volcanic eruptions.
May 2017
Reading the Bones
In a Neolithic community in Turkey, bone loss in older men and women showed, surprisingly, no significant sex differences.
May 2017
The Agony of 'Old Probabilities'
How a solar eclipse imperiled the life of America’s first weatherman.
February 2017
Saffron
Uses of this pricey commodity are emerging in the West; in the East, it has a long history.
April 2017
Beauty Happens
Darwin's theory that mate choice is explicitly aesthetic was a really dangerous idea.
February 2017
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?
The idea of creating a “Tree of Minerals” seemed contrived, until recently.
September 2016
Outport Life
Newfoundlanders use whatever means available to hold fast to their cherished land.
September 2016
Sex Lives of Fish
Fish conduct elaborate courtship rituals and some develop lifelong bonds.