Color-changing cells in an Atlantic squid’s skin contain light-sensitive pigments. Alexandra Kingston By Dr. Thomas Cronin / 08.09.2017...
Month: August 2017
Cleopatra Before Caesar by Jean-Léon Gérôme, oil on canvas, 1866. Cleopatra confronts Gaius Julius Caesar after emerging from a roll of carpet....
Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur, 1900. / Courtesy Boston Public Library By Ben Thomas / 08.17.2017 In...
A page from one of Guldenstubbé’s manuscripts By Dr. Romeo Vitelli / 03.21.2017 Psychologist Providentia When stories about...
07.23.2017 he ability to stay positive is one of the first things to go when we’re going...
New research is exploring the brain regions linked to gratitude—and it helps explain gratitude’s many benefits. By...
San Fernando Valley Credit: Oakshade, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. David A. Wacks / 05.24.2017 Professor of Spanish Department of Romance...
Obelisk, Roman, AD 88/89. Granite, 351.5 cm high. Collection: Benevento, Museo del Sannio, inv. 1916 A brief...
Pasta? Pizza? Clams? Kai Schreiber/Flickr By Dr. Stephen M. Fleming / 11.29.2016 Principal Research Associate at the Wellcome...
John Everett Millais The Somnambulist / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Philip Jaekl / 03.03.2017 Neuroscientist Last night, most...
08.04.2017 What Would You Tell Others If You Knew Your Time Was Nearly Up? Most of us...
Photo by José Feliciano Cerdeño, Flickr, Creative Commons By Balveer Singh Sikh, and Deb Spence / 04.25.2016 Abstract Understanding the nondualistic...
A sister tying the protective thread. Vikram Verma By Dr. Matthew Schmalz / 08.07.2017 Associate Professor of Religion...
What sounds did the people of Chaco Canyon hear during daily life? David E. Witt By Kristy...
“Ave, Caesar! Io, Saturnalia!” Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1880. / Wikimedia Commons By Cassandra Gill / 06.20.2017 Festivals...
Green colonies of allergenic fungus Penicillium from air spores on a petri dish. Penicillin was the first...
By Melody Walford / 07.28.2017 Traumatic Memory and How to Heal it Have you ever been told...
By Elayne Youssef / 08.02.2017 It’s Easy Once You Know How… My 10-day ‘Introduction to Buddhism’ course was...
The next frontier of data storage: DNA. ymgerman/Shutterstock By Dr. Luis Ceze and Dr. Karin Strauss /...
Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Charlie Huenemann / 08.01.2017 Professor of Philosophy Utah State University I am stranded...
‘A movie camera to watch the whole universe’; an artist’s conception of the LSST inside its dome...
Angelic Upstarts at a Miners’ Benefit Dance at the Barbary Coast Club, Sunderland, Wearside (detail), 1984, Chris Killip....
NOAA 5-day hurricane forecast model. Forecast tracks are shown in gray, observed tracks in black. / NASA...