Science

Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Planet. It’s a Very Large Ball of Ice!

It’s Pluto, with its moon, Charon

March 2002

Keepers of the Flames

February 2002

Give the Devil His Due

Blame Bugs Bunny and a nasty yawn for the Tasmanian devil’s bad rap

February 2002

Behind the Lines: Close Calls

Danger comes with the territory for our writers

January 2002

Dragonfly Dramas

Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico’s Bitter Lake Refuge

January 2002

Prince of Tides

Before “ecology” became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing

January 2002

Hero for Our Time

Challenged to prove his germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur shaped the terrain on which the battle against anthrax is being fought

January 2002

Tiger Tracks

Revisiting his old haunts in Nepal, the author looks for tigers and finds a clever new strategy for saving them

January 2002

Tigers at the Gate

January 2002

Tunnel Vision

Arizona Naturalist Pinau Merlin celebrates life in the desert by keeping a close eye on it

December 2001

Something’s Fishy

Scientists are trying to fathom why Hawaii’s fish population is declining

December 2001

Review of GERMS: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War

Review of GERMS: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War

December 2001

Eureka! Fell Swoops and Stubborn Molars

December 2001

Brave New World

Everything you wanted to know about stem cells, cloning and genetic engineering but were afraid to ask

December 1, 2001

Fire and Brimstone

A long-outdated approach to sulfur mining sends hundreds of Javanese workers deep into the crater of an active volcano

December 2001

Whales on Mountaintops

A great fossil find high in the Chilean Andes began with a delayed flight in New York City and ended with a horseback ride from hell

December 1, 2001

Heavenly Harbingers

High altitude, night-shining clouds are becoming more common, which could signal climate changes

November 2001

Getting in Deep

The unending quest for oil has now led drillers to vast reserves lying more than a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico

November 1, 2001

Risky Business

The Australian pact with the world’s largest crocodiles seems to be working—but critics say that the costs are fatally high

November 1, 2001

The Way of Confucius

In a remote corner of eastern China, travelers tread the path of the ancient sage

November 1, 2001