It used to be common - or at least not rare - for communities to uproot entire buildings and move them blocks or even miles away. For example, my town's Town Hall was once the Congregational Church across the street. When the congregation decided to build a new church...

The basic story of demographics in the United States over the past couple of decades is that non-Hispanic whites have had smaller and smaller families, which means that the proportion of people who are some other ethnic or racial group keeps growing. Ken Johnson, a...

Because many of us in stay-at-home mode are failing to cope with the hairs that grow on various parts of our head (also because I'm sick of bad news) I thought I'd rerun this light-hearted column from October 2017. If you’d like to see an intriguing example of how...

With some pushing to remove Franklin Pierce’s name from two colleges because of his support of slavery, you have to wonder about the future of a much bigger object: Mount Pierce. Right now there doesn’t seem to be any agitation to rename that 4,300-foot peak in the...

By Sara Schaier, UNH: If you want to understand how a species will survive or fail, one of the things you need to know is whether it’s mating at top capacity. A new study from UNH discovered a better way to count sperm in lobster that could help researchers of any...

That's the question I tackle in my Monitor column this week (read it here). Spoiler alert: Variety is the spice of long life. The photo taken in lat June shows a giant ash I stumbled across in 2018 and previously wrote about. To my pleasant surprise, it is still...