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Fairy Ring #3Collage by Amy Ross (with permission) The front lawn is an American symbol of middle-class status and respectability. We trim ours with ride-on mowers, condition them with nitrogen, and hydrate them with elaborate sprinklers, largely because they represent us to everyone driving by. Ironically, it’s due to this energetic maintenance that one pest […]

Animal homes resist our understanding.

How your brain twists together emotion and place.

Disrupting cancer’s diaspora may lead to new therapies.

The temperature has to be just right.

The meaning of home in human evolution.

When did the savanna give way to the crash pad?

How artificial homes for pathogens may lead to better medicine.

scion via Shutterstock Just south of the equator, thirty miles off the coast of Tanzania, sits a small island called Pemba. The small patch of dry land jutting out from the Indian Ocean is just 30 miles long and 10 miles wide. The quarter million or so people who inhabit Pemba live more or less […]