Scientists have identified a brain circuit that drives fruit flies' ability to see in color -- and found that it bears a striking resemblance to the circuitry behind our own capacity for color vision.

I can hardly resist the lure of flowering thistles. Initially, their pollinators attracted me, and later I was amused by the larvae of tortoise beetles that spool their feces around their forked tails ...

[dropcap letter=”A”]lvin Theriault was 11 when he tied his first fishing fly. “The material came from a Boy Scout kit,” he told me recently. “I tied several colorful feathers onto a hook, cast it into ...