According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the plants receive information from light. Your light receptors are located on the ...

It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

The alternative is finding out how to live on a planet suffering from chronic lung disease.

The Nikon Small World photography contest doesn’t celebrate weather, wildlife, or natural landscapes. Instead, it’s meant to honor images of the world at the smallest possible scales, offering unique ...

Viruses can cause cancer. It’s something that’s well-established now, but the discovery was initially dismissed by the scientific community. Now, a new review published in Genes & Cancer is telling ...

In Wyoming, we find cowboys, bison, rodeos, elk, and natural hot springs. But ocean cephalopods? Belemnites had been found in this fossil formation before, since it used to be an inland sea during the ...

A chill is in the air (at least for us dwellers of the Northern Latitudes), the days have shortened, and good books beckon us to calm corners and states of contemplative repose. In this season of ...

For more than a decade a group of Harvard professors has taught a class about wisdom and its religious, moral, and aesthetic dimensions to undergraduates. The four professors are friends from distinct ...

A few years ago, Ralph Chami, a financial economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was on a boat in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez with researchers studying blue whales. He knew nothing about the ...

For most of the year, Iceberg Alley is gray and cold. The largest city on its shores, St. John’s, is known as “Canada’s Weather Champion.” Among major Canadian cities, the capital of Newfoundland and ...

Our country has a long and tortured history with food pyramids. The original dietary schematic, unveiled in 1992, had a firm foundation of carbohydrates—the bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group. It ...