For nearly a century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was more than a transportation network — it was a living monument to American industry. Its polished rails ...
Clovis points are well known from the U.S. Southwest and the Great Plains. But recent findings are pushing their ...
Let’s start with the title of the book Foreign Fruit. I guess, even in the name itself, it feels like such a loaded title that’s deeply personal to you. ...
When thinking about humanity’s migrations across continents, yeast is probably the last traveler that comes to mind. Yet new research led by Jacqueline Peña ...
Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale
Its curator, Dr. Sam Bleakley, was keen to tell the story of “100 years in 100 boards”, he says. The earliest, he shows me, is a wooden “coffinboard”, made ...
Generation Z is putting its own spin on knafeh, a dish first designed to quash a caliph's hunger pangs
I was a guest on the NPR and Marfa Public Radio show, Nature Notes, discussing my research on human-javelina relations in Texas. Listen for a sneak peek at ...