Science and Nature

That’s it. The eight-word title of this article has delivered all the advice you need to live a long and healthy life. We’ve killed or tamed our natural predators, knocked out most infectious diseases with […]

Every morning, State Climatologist Nolan Doesken looks at a map of North America freckled with dots representing thousands of weather stations in a network he created in 1998: the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow […]

As those of you with young children know, dinosaurs didn’t really become extinct 65 million years ago. A few of the smaller ones with feathers evolved into birds. One of those feathered dinosaurs now fuels […]

Mosquitoes kill more than a million people every year. They transport deadly diseases such as yellow fever and malaria while supping on the blood of unsuspecting victims. The American Mosquito Control Association estimates that malaria […]

Many insects cause an instant “yuk” response as they scuttle or fly into our attention zone. Butterflies, however, usually elicit “oohs” and “aahs” as they flit from flower to flower with colorful ostentation. Befittingly, the […]

I like birds, but I don’t care to trudge around the backcountry with notebook and binoculars to find the rare ones. I guess that’s why birds I might meet near a park bench, especially those […]

Ah… that first cup of coffee each day! It almost seems like just the smell of those alkaloids and flavonoids from roasting coffee beans could lift us out of bed in the morning. And that […]

Mark Sept. 3 on your calendars. That’s when the City of Fort Collins and the Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center north of Wellington will combine efforts to help restore a fragment of the West’s ancient prairie […]