Naturalist at Large

April 2017

Adaptive Aesthetics

October 2015

A Matter of Degrees

Comparing the rewards of small-scale farming to those recounted by Thoreau

Forget the opium, savor the poppy flowers

Science has its rewards and punishments

November 2009

Discover gray whales in the isolated San Ignacio lagoon

Fossilized cell remnants in 3.4 billion-year-old bedrock are from primitive microbes.

Frog hoppers piercing plants with their mouthparts produce negative pressures exceeding a megapascal.

An Okinawa citrus species arose two million years ago when the Ryukyu archipelago disconnected from Asia.

Astronomers have detected a disk around a planet outside our Solar System for the first time.