Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

In the relationship between humans and raccoons, the black-masked mammals have played many roles Samuel I. Zeveloff The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps ...

It's practically common knowledge by now that Leif Erikson, not Christopher Columbus, was the first European to set foot in the Americas. He arrived in modern-day Newfoundland around the year 1000, ...

Every now and then, two books appear that seem to be in quiet conversation, even when they come from opposite directions. Kathleen DuVal's "Native Nations" looks across centuries of North American ...