In 2011, a collector bought a meteorite in Morocco. It turned out to be direct evidence of a presence of thermal water on Mars.
In a small hotel room in Erfoud, which is on the edge of the Moroccan desert, a private collector opened […]
In a small hotel room in Erfoud, which is on the edge of the Moroccan desert, a private collector opened […]
Even the best-kept gardens can look empty in the winter. Bare branches, grey skies, and frozen ground. But for little
The first sign wasn’t a headline or a satellite map. It was a woman in a grocery store in Chicago,
A scientific paper or a satellite map didn’t give the first warning. It came from a small group of reindeer
Three zodiac signs will feel the floor shift under their feet in a way that is impossible to ignore on
As the weather gets colder, millions of homes in Europe and North America hang up fat balls and seed mixes.
A little boy is yelling because he wants the dinosaur cereal with the bright blue marshmallows. His mother whispers, “Okay,
Engineers watch a bank of monitors at a test range on Japan’s rough northern coast as a smooth, dark shape
You probably did it this week without even realizing it. You sprayed, scrubbed, and wiped, and you felt strangely satisfied
When I first saw the glass and paper in my friend’s sink, I thought she had left in a hurry
I saw a woman at the Saturday market stand in front of the vegetable stall with a broccoli in one
The woman in front of me at the pharmacy couldn’t move in front of the shampoo aisle. One bottle said
The tiles are fine and the bathroom is clean, but what about the grout lines? In bright light, it looks
It was the wrong kind of blue for February in Tromsø. People got off the bus wearing light jackets, kids
The night the Arctic air felt wrong didn’t look like much on a screen. Another looping satellite animation in a
At first, it just looked like one of those cold mornings you expect in late January. Frost stuck to car
A window, not a chart, was the first warning. In late January, people in the Midwest and Northern Europe started
The moment usually hits in the bathroom, under that cruel top light. You lean over the sink, catch your reflection,
It was a gray February morning in northern Minnesota, and the silence felt wrong. The air was sharp, the snow
Fake lemon. Sharpness of chemicals. My eyes hurt and my throat felt tight, and all of a sudden the quiet
The ocean looked strangely calm. On a grey morning in February, Lena Sørensen, a marine ecologist, leaned over the rail