What Science Tells Us About Adventure

Some go to therapy. Some blog. Others drink.1 Everyone’s got a different method for dealing with the bigger queries in life. Who am I? Why am…

How to Catch a Bearded Fireworm (Or a Marine Biologist’s Friday Night)

It is quite difficult to catch a bearded fireworm when it is dark and you are upside-down. But really, it is the only way to catch…

What Science Tells Us About Adventure

How to Catch a Bearded Fireworm (Or a Marine Biologist’s Friday Night)

The ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ of Epidemics

The Treasure Hunters’ Treasure Hunter

The ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ of Epidemics

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is officially the deadliest ever.

The Treasure Hunters’ Treasure Hunter

(This article is excerpted from Troubled Waters: The Battle Over Shipwrecks, Treasure, and History at the Bottom of the Sea.) Anything good down there? I asked…

Tubman Underwater? Climate Change Puts National Monuments At Risk

An audio piece looking at the rising tides encroaching on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Memorial in Maryland.

A Morning at the Piip Show

If you think you don’t like birdwatching, take a peek at the Piip Show — a livestream of Norwegian birds frequenting a birdhouse designed to look like a coffee shop — with gifs taken from a typical morning.

Science Frog Meets A Gibbon

Science Frog is the acquaintance you didn’t know you wanted.

What drugs can astronauts take in space?

It is really, really inconvenient to get sick in space. At least, that’s what I took away from some recent reporting on astronaut microbiomes and zero-gravity…