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Why It Pays to Play Around

Play is so important that nature invented it long before it invented us.

June 5, 2019

Travels in Geology: Touring the Capital Geology of Washington, D.C.

The nation's political center is also home to a rich geological history, found in both natural rock outcrops and the diverse suite of evocative building stones and monuments.

May 30, 2019

Travels in Geology: The Pyramids of Giza

Exploring the wonders of an ancient world.

May 30, 2019

Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots.

A radical reconfiguration of the long-standing dinosaur family tree challenges an orthodoxy built on roughly a century and a half of research.

May 29, 2019

Juno Unveils Jupiter’s Secrets

The NASA mission has turned our knowledge of Jupiter “upside down.”

May 29, 2019

The Ancient Rites That Gave Birth to Religion

Sacred beliefs likely arose out of prehistoric bonding and rituals.

May 29, 2019

The Worth of an Angry God

How supernatural beliefs allowed societies to bond and spread.

May 29, 2019

Piecing Together the Big Picture of Coral Reef Health

Scientists are seeing a glimmer of hope in the complicated future of coral reefs.

May 29, 2019

Richard Dawkins on Poetry

The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.

May 28, 2019