Magnifying our mutant, turbulent, symmetrical natures.

A lithograph of the massive 1883 eruption of KrakatoaThe eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena, 1888; Parker &

r.classen via Shutterstock In the 1630s, Holland was gripped by the world’s only known case of “tulip mania.” The intensely colored flowers were already a luxury item before then, but their prices leaped when tulips with flame patterned petals hit the market, and they continued rocketing to previously incomprehensible levels. The price for a single […]

Digging through the world’s oldest graveyard with African paleontologists.

In Ethiopia, paleontologists are pushing back the clock on humanity’s origins.