Most Recent Articles from Natural History

• Science en masse: modern astronomy proceeds with telescopes, computers—and lots of eyeballs 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The size of the observable universe, with its roughly 100 billion galaxies, each containing billions of interesting...

  06/01/09 by Charles Liu · More from publication

• Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones 

  Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones by Gary Y. Okihiro University of California Press, 2009; 255 pages, $24.95...

  06/01/09 by Laurence A. Marschall · More from publication

• Linguistic dinosaurs 

  Olivia Judson will be taking a break from her "Life Zone" column; along with her audience, we look forward to her return. Meanwhile, a reader...

  06/01/09 by Vittorio Maestro · More from publication

• Misaligned by power lines 

  To aesthetes, high-voltage power lines are a blight on the rural landscape. But zoologists at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany welcome...

  06/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication

• A is for Akeley and apes 

  Hired by Chicago's Field Museum to create a series of dioramas of North American mammals, Carl E. Akeley (1864-1926) pioneered a new method of...

  06/01/09 by Richard Milner · More from publication

• Goblins on the march: Utah does the hoodoo very well 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In southeastern Utah, west of the Green River, a tributary of the Colorado, and east of a prominent ridge known as the San...

  06/01/09 by Richard L. Orndorff Robert W. Wieder David G. Futey · More from publication

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