Fungi, of which there are over 100,000 species, including yeasts and other single-celled organisms as well as …

The Native Americans of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds,grasses, barks, a…

Prehistoric mammoths have been preserved in the famous tar pits of Rancho La Brea (Brea is the Spanish word fo…

Television has transformed politics in the United States by changing the way in which information is dissemina…

The spectacular aurora light displays that appear in Earth’s atmosphere around the north and south magne…

The sculptural legacy that the new United States inherited from its colonial predecessors was far from a rich …

The canopy, the upper level of the trees in the rain forest, holds a plethora of climbing mammals of moderatel…

As Philadelphia grew from a small town into a city in the first half of the eighteenth century, it became an i…

Potash (the old name for potassium carbonate) is one of the two alkalis (the other being soda,sodium carbonate…

Perhaps the most obvious way artistic creation reflects how people live is by mirroring the environment — the …

The term “Hudson River school” was applied to the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century N…

The Native Americans of northern California were highly skilled at basketry, using the reeds,grasses, barks, a…

The geology of the Earth’s surface is dominated by the particular properties of water. Present on Earth …