Carolyn Wells

James S. Murray explores the start of a decade of consequences, and the stark difference between ghosts and ancestors.

Steven Heighton sat in silence with an author he admired — and learned how to write well.

Each snowmaking machine uses around the same energy as a boiler in a family home — but are they the answer to saving our retreating glaciers?

“Life could appear in perfect darkness, in blistering heat and a broth of noxious compounds — an environment that would extinguish every known creature on Earth.” Life has been discovered at the deepest depths of the ocean, but is it under threat from mining?

Autoimmune disease occurs when the body attacks the very thing it was supposed to protect — you. Meghan O’Rouke found herself grappling with what remains one of the most mysterious categories of disease.

Language is always changing. Has technology forced it to evolve in new ways?

In 1961, Joachim Rudolph escaped from one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships. A few months later, he began tunneling his way back in. Why?

Leo Schwartz explores what he learned about nature during a back-breaking summer working on trails in the burned-out Oregon backcountry.