The author, who according to family legend is a direct descendant of Myles Standish, surveys the checkered career of his pugnacious Pilgrim ancestor
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A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics
A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder
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An unlikely alliance of Midwesterners says it is time to take another look at generating electricity through wind power
It may look fuzzy and adorable but this New Zealand bird is one tough customer
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For the National Zoological Park, an artist depicts the diversity of the islands’ extinct avian species
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Day by Day, In Pursuit of Justice
In Washington County, Vermont, prosecutors face mounting caseloads, looming deadlines and ongoing drama
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As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate
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In California’s Long Valley, the earth trembles every day where a volcano once exploded
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Casting Light on Iranian Deserts
Closely watched by their guides and military escort, harried biologists survey the wild things that survive there
At his laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, researcher Mark Tilden creates machines that march to the beat of a different drummer
“You Gotta Remember, Eels Are Weird”
They’re slimy, snaky, ugly and repulsive, but once you acquire a taste for this much-maligned species, “slippery as an eel” becomes a compliment
Long displayed, long dispersed, the famous Hornaday bison “family” is reunited in a new home
Slowly rising temperatures are melting the frozen ground that underlies most land at high latitudes
In Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe
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