I don’t know why, because they are plentiful earlier in the season, but a particular life form that I just found this weekend, on a cold and frosty morning with a hint of wood smoke in the air, the ...

The bare woods of late fall in Westborough harbor odd forms of life known as slime molds, including those with strange, descriptive names like wolf’s milk slime and pretzel slime. A glimpse of these ...

From animal fats to venom, the beauty industry is always on the lookout for a new "it" ingredient. But before we start smearing beef fat all over our skin, we checked in with dermatologist Doris Day ...

I probably shouldn’t get quite so excited about the life I find in my wood pile. I was all set to write about baby turtles this week when, while neatening up the debris from last year’s wood pile, I ...

For every rule, there must be at least one exception. One of my rules is no reality television. It really has not been difficult. I’d just as much watch paint dry as observe people living on a ...