The three generations of scientists dedicated to knowing a small sliver of Earth, one flower and one hummingbird at a time ...

is a writer who lives in southern California. He holds graduate degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and a Fulbright grant recipient.

is assistant professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History at the Ohio State University. She is the author of States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization (2024).

The Greek philosopher Democritus first proposed that the Universe was built from indivisible building blocks, or atomos, in roughly 400 BCE. This animation from physicists at the Massachusetts ...