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by L. E. Carmichael Courtesy of Doug Wheller via Flickr Commons Lately my Facebook feed has filled up with memes and videos about mira...

By Simon Shapiro Nanotechnology deals with particles ranging in size from 1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one millionth of a meter. T...

By Larry Verstraete My wife, Jo, and I are ardent hikers. She more than me, actually. Jo outpaces me on every trail, faithfully charts her...

by Jan Thornhill Chlorociboria  produces gorgeous blue-green fruit bodies. It’s easy to forget while collecting fungi that the...

Post by Helaine Becker For those of us who get all fluttery when we hear the words "Voyage of the Beagle," have I got a post for...

By Claire Eamer Whenever an airplane crashes, you hear about investigators retrieving the plane's black box. It's a device that re...

Sci/Why's peripatetic correspondent Margriet Ruurs sends us another report from a fascinating part of the world - this time from Haida G...