Postage stamps are lessons in history, politics, science, or geography packed onto a small piece of gummed paper. They’re also beautiful works of art. In Stamped we’re going coastal, with postal.

When I first see the canoe, in May, it takes a moment to distinguish the long, shapely slab of cedar from the patch of earth that has spent more than a century trying to reclaim it. Covered in moss ...

In a quiet corner of Indonesia, the Indian Ocean rises up in a low wave and spreads out its wide, frothy collar as it washes up along the shore. The city just beyond its reach in the Sumatran province ...

On October 4, 1987, the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts (population 16,000), had a pair of unlikely visitors: Akihito, crown prince of Japan (today, the emperor), and his wife, Princess Michiko. Why ...

Congratulations to Ashley Braun on winning the 2023 National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award in the Science Reporting category for this story. For those who know how ...

Postage stamps are lessons in history, politics, science, or geography packed onto a small piece of gummed paper. They’re also beautiful works of art. In Stamped we’re going coastal, with postal. A ...

The young scientist gripping the wheel of a motorboat slicing through the ocean waves has the last name Suraci—Icarus spelled backward. It’s another scientist onboard who points this out. Michael ...

The first thing to know about the green crab is that it isn’t necessarily green. Fresh out of the ocean in southwestern Nova Scotia, it can appear brown, or red, or yellow. What is distinctive is its ...

One November night each year, beneath the full moon, more than 130 species of corals simultaneously spawn in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Some corals spew plumes of sperm, smoldering like ...

For the past several years, when I’ve asked my kids, now nine and 11, what they did at school on any given day, they’ve responded with a similar refrain: “We played Prodigy in math.” “We watched TV ...

The lives of Arctic seabirds are never easy, but the breeding season is especially hard. After months or even years at sea, free to follow wherever prey and favorable weather may lead them, the urge ...

Congratulations to Heather Pringle on winning a Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA) Public Communications Award for this article. What I remember most about Jacques Cinq-Mars the first time we ...