In the new book, “Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age,” James Chappel, an associate professor of history at Duke University and a senior fellow at the Duke Aging Center ...

Among the most common spiders found in and around the home, the shy grass spider (aka a funnel-web spider) builds dense, silk-lined webs/burrows to trap its insect victims. They’re also super fast ...

The forest floor is a world of wonder in its own right – a soft carpet of redwood sorrel, sword ferns, and emerald moss that has evolved to thrive in the perpetual twilight created by the dense canopy ...