鈥淎 butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Central Park, you get rain instead of sunshine.鈥� That memorable quote comes from Jeff Goldbloom in Jurassic Park as he tries to explain how worldly...
Helios, the sun god in Greek mythology, rode a chariot across the sky, east to west, sunrise to sundown, year round, as dusk bestows silvery moonlight accompanied by stars that extend to infinity...
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, 30, is a native of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. This country of ~53,000 people is spread out over 1,159 islands with most of the population on 29 coral...
While walking around the exhibit hall at an agricultural conference a few years ago, when we could still travel, I perused the usual displays of farming equipment and industry booths promoting...
We tend to fixate on the drastic changes caused by evolution over huge timescales. It鈥檚 easy to ignore the small variations between generations that add together over time to form the big...
Most homeowners let their dogs use the backyard as their own personal toilet. Often after a winter of such potty practice, when the snow melts, you鈥檒l often find your lawn speckled with unsightly...
How many times have you heard the expression, 鈥渋f only I could be a fly on that wall?鈥� But how do flies walk up walls and across ceilings? At the Marine Science Laboratory in North Wales scientists...
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