Articles

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Providential Happening

A fiery installation draws crowds in Providence, Rhode Island, illuminating a "daylighting" trend

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The Genius Within; The Backbone of the World

Book Reviews

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Preparing for the Best

Thanks to the mega-selling Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, we now know how to cope with charging bulls, plunging elevators and runaway locomotives

After 41 days of grueling, round-the-clock diving, Cmdr. Bobbie Scholley and her dive team celebrated the turret's recovery.

Pieces of History

Raised from the deep, the Monitor's turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship's violent end

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Unearthing Athens' Underworld

Throughout the decade-long construction of the city's new metro, archaeologists have found a trove of treasures

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Passions

Nuts about history and bonkers for baseball

Cultivating Delight

George Washington, shown here in an 1853 lithograph, oversees his slaves at Mount Vernon.

Founding Fathers and Slaveholders

To what degree do the attitudes of Washington and Jefferson toward slavery diminish their achievements?

They pop their heads out of the water to keep track of family members.

Otterly Fascinating

Inquisitive, formidable and endangered, giant otters are luring tourists by the thousands to Brazil's unspoiled, biodiverse waterscape

Calhoun tends some 450 apple varieties, more than four times the number commercially cultivated in this country.

Apples of Your Eye

Fruit sleuths and nursery owners are fighting to save our nation's apple heritage...before it's too late

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Requiem for a Heavyweight

Science meets shamanism at a gathering to ponder the fate of the Pacific Ocean leatherback

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Lasting Impressions

Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians

Stately architecture such as 1887 row houses on 122nd Street attract tour groups as well as tenants.

Coming Up Harlem

A revival of the fabled New York community inspires pride and controversy

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Three Kiwis?

No, dear reader, this isn't Auckland Today

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Making Ends Meet

Iowa abbey monks craft fine caskets for the recently departed and "pre-Need" customers alike

American Will Thompson (with his take on Goya's Young Woman with a Fan) has been copying at the Louvre since 1994.

Master Class

Like generations of painters before them, artists from around the globe go to Paris to copy the masterpieces at the Louvre

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Politically Correct

Artist Peter Waddell's scrupulously researched paintings of the U.S. Capitol bring history to life

A number of mechanisms used by common antibiotics to deal with bacteria and ways by which bacteria become resistant to them.

Book Excerpt: Supergerm Warfare

Dragon's drool, frog's glands and shark's stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria

The eye-catching cigarette packages in Johnson's collection served as advertisements as well as containers, testaments to legions of company artists. English Craven A's, American One-Elevens and Scottish Cuba Blends are from the first half of the 20th century.

Pack Rat

First Virgil Johnson gave up smoking. Then he gave up his breathtaking collection of tobacco-nalia

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet warheads on Cuban soil could have attacked many major U.S. cities.

Learning from the Missile Crisis

What Really Happened on Those Thirteen Fateful Days in October

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