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As students drifted into the Northwest College Paul Stock Agricultural Pavilion industrial kitchen Friday to learn to process livestock, Marvin Mauch didn’t mince words. Three live rabbits and …

It’s not unusual to find Powell artist Jerry Johnson seeking solace along the banks of the Shoshone River, but you’ll never find him there without his pup, Bear. He does his best thinking …

This essay is a companion piece to an episode of Radiolab, titled The Interstitium, coming Friday, November 17. You don’t need to have heard it for this

The Crown-of-Thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) What do they look like? An adult Crown-of-Thorns starfish (often abbreviated as COTS) is a large flatt...

Popular Discourse of Science in the Twentieth Century

It isn’t just species that are going extinct – it's the worlds they are part of and that they host that are also disappearing

The stories we tell about scientists are often heroic. The figure whose breakthrough idea is rejected, forgotten, and then later vindicated is a classic of such narration. Consider Constantin Merezhkowsky (1855–1921), championed as the “father” of symbiogenesis. In the early decades of the twentieth century, he suggested that cell organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as simpler bacteria-like organisms. He was laughed out of the room. Yet his papers of 1905 and 1909–1...