Dogwood Seedling From Starting Over Festival Sprouts
At the Starting Over Festival that I helped organize in Somerville on April 22, we gave out seedlings. A month later, a dogwood seedling we took home is finally beginning…Continue Reading →
Photos: Alewife Migrating Upstream Along Mystic Lake
Alewife migrating upstream at the Upper Mystic Lake Dam fish ladder in Winchester, Massachusetts, May 27, 2018. Photos copyright Greg Cook. Help Wonderland keep producing our great coverage of local…Continue Reading →
Do Crocodiles Make Good Pets And Other Important Facts We Learned At The Museum Of Science’s New ‘Crocs’ Exhibit
Crocodiles, alligators and other crocodilians have flourished for more than 200 million years and now they’ve come to Boston’s Museum of Science in the exhibit “Crocs: Ancient Predators in a…Continue Reading →
Fish, Meet Your New MIT Robot Overlord!
With the headline “Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week announced that “a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial…Continue Reading →
Where To Go Maple Sugaring Around Boston
Our guide to where to get your classic New England spring sugar fix. One of the great harbingers of spring in New England is maple sugaring. Below is our guide…Continue Reading →
Puppet Wolves Hunt A Deer Through The Streets Of Montreal To Reconsider Legends Of The Big Bad Wolf
MONTREAL—It was snowing lightly last Thursday afternoon as the performance of “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège discret de la nature sauvage” (“The Dancing Beasts or the Discrete Spell of…Continue Reading →
‘Snowflake Man,’ A Tiny Performance About A Vermont Pioneer Of Microscopic Photography
During a snowstorm in January 1885, Wilson ”Snowflake” Bentley, a Vermont farmer turned scientist, is said to have become the first person to photograph a single snow crystal—more commonly known…Continue Reading →
Visit ‘Mirror Maze’ For The Dazzling Hall Of Mirrors, Stay For The Geometry
The professed aim of “A Mirror Maze: Numbers In Nature”—the new exhibit on view at Boston’s Museum of Science through April 25—is to highlights mathematical patterns in the natural world:…Continue Reading →
Have You Seen Jupiter At South Station? Have You Seen Uranus In JP?
Some weeks back I found myself struggling to phrase what suddenly seemed like a delicate question: Have you seen Uranus? Actually, I didn’t get a chance to ask the question…Continue Reading →
Video Offers Rare Glimpse Of Wood Turtles Hibernating In An Icy Massachusetts River
In recent months, Mark Lotterhand has been haunting the Squannacook River in northern Massachusetts. “I’ve been running around chasing snakes. On my bucket list was to find a population—called a…Continue Reading →