By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Claudio Contreras Koob The village of Santa Catarina Minas, a 25-mile drive south from the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, doesn’t look like much.
Biocrust in Utah Nihonjoe via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Under the dry, piercing heat of the Utah sun, Sasha Reed is growing plots of plants—and bacteria, lichen and fungi,
Intense flooding continued on August 7, after the sudden draining of a glacial lake near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska. Rich Ross Around 3:30 in the morning on August
This fossil palm leaf (Sabalites sp.) found in Alaska can be seen in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Sixty million years ago, dense, wet forests covered North America,
Matías A. Loewy, Knowable Magazine If just by looking at our watch or cellphone we can know, in real time, our heart rate, the number of steps we take, the
Our ten favorite science books of the year covered everything from astronomy to undersea exploration. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz In the past 12 months, record-breaking wildfires burned across Canada, and