For visitors to Fort Myers, Fleamasters offers a glimpse into local culture that you won’t get from standard tourist attractions. Here, you’ll see the real Florida—diverse, entrepreneurial, friendly, ...

Cemented dunes in Gale Crater reveal evidence of late-stage water that may have preserved organic signals beneath the Martian ...

North Carolina is an ideal spot to find fossilized shark teeth. Be prepared for the coolest finds with my tips on knowing where to look.

Three Mile Lake Beach is like discovering a hidden treasure in southern Iowa. This quiet spot offers the kind of peaceful beach experience that’s getting harder to find. The lake is small but ...

Neil Young’s greatest hits range from “Old Man” to “Heart of Gold”! The Canadian musician got his start in the 1960s and is ...

“Megaliths represent the earliest form of monumental stone architecture,” write the authors of the new study, and the Menga ...

When water penetrates rock crevices in permafrost, it transports heat deep underground, where it causes the frozen rock to ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

While taking my cardboard recyclables to the Bulldog recycle yard, I thought about how Mother Nature recycles rocks. She ...

"Take On Me," the 1980s synth-pop hit song from the band A-ha, marks 40 years of global ubiquity even while personal disputes have chilled the Norwegian trio.

Storm-driven damage on the Outer Banks—or any coastal town in North Carolina—is nothing new. Hurricanes like 1991’s Emily and ...

I’ve noticed that “clinginess” and “emotional unavailability” are like the Grand Canyon and Alaska—beautiful in their own ...