Returning to Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez
A literary classic doubles as data, helping scientists trace decades of ecological change in the Gulf of California.
Equine-Assisted Therapy: But What Do the Horses Think?
An emerging critique examines the moral and cultural assumptions behind horse-based interventions.
Bicycling Into the Future
Across centuries, bicycles have embodied hopes for speed, freedom, efficiency, and survival.
The Missing Sense in Modern Medicine
Researchers argue routine smell testing could detect neurodegenerative disease and other health risks years earlier than current exams.
Wild Rice and the Rights of Nature
A groundbreaking lawsuit asks whether wild rice, or manoomin, can hold legal rights under tribal law and the growing rights of nature movement.
Jefferson’s Fossils
What can Thomas Jefferson’s mistaken ideas about fossils tell us about science and belief in the early United States?
The Medicinal Wood That Turned Water Blue
For nearly half a millennium, botanists sought the "true" identity of Lignum nephriticum, a mysterious marvel that confounded early modern science.
Rights of Nature: A Reading List
What would it mean for rivers, forests, and animals to have legal rights? A global movement is rethinking law’s relationship to nature.
The Fires This Time
To understand current mass burning events better, scientists are turning to the phenomenon known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly.
Za’atar: From Ancient Texts to Modern Conflict
More than an herb, za’atar shapes, narrates, and anchors identity and political dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Sinai Peninsula.