Hoping to become a writer, a young woman dives deep in ‘The Chronology of Water’

Kristen Stewart makes a discomfiting directorial debut with Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir, starring a fearless Imogen Poots ...

A tug-of-war explains a decades-old question about how bacteria swim

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...
Boise State Public Radio

This week in science: elephant trunks, butterfly migration and a hot galaxy cluster

NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a surprising discovery about the early universe.

Paul Gripp, one of the last great orchid explorers and hybridizers, dies at 93

The Santa Barbara resident was renowned in the orchid world as a speaker, author and breeder of orchids, many of which he ...

Climate Change Animation ‘Black Butterflies’ Has Conquered Spain and Latin America — Now It Hopes to Take Flight in the U.S.

With an original song from Grammy-winning artist Rubén Blades, the film’s director and producer look to tackle the U.S.: ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 15 Stunning Microscopic Snowflake Images Helped Change the Way We See the World

Farmer Wilson Bentley was the first to photograph the tiny snow crystals individually, and his collection reveals that each ...