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Development in the dirt

Life blooms in a dark basement not far from Moscow’s Main Street. This year, 50 varieties of sprouting tomatoes reached toward grow lights and cuddled a dusty, electric heating pad […]

Where the cattails grow

Suppose you had a distant cousin. Suppose she had thick brown hair and dark, bright eyes. Maybe her teeth kind of stick out and she has an appreciation for woody […]

Above the ceiling

  Dead bugs lay visible in the light fixtures, the water-stained ceiling tiles are unmoved and fire alarm cables protrude from the walls along the halls of the College of […]

Falling for math

Over the years, University of Idaho math graduate student Jesse Oldroyd has developed a severe mistrust of threes. He likes fives much better, and feels that sevens are weird. Oldroyd, […]

Deferred consequences

It’s hard to comprehend why a tattered Depression-era farmhouse would house a world-class research institute. But that is the situation the University of Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute has found itself […]

Hey, Good Lookin’

It’s not always about looks … then again, it might be. Let’s talk about sex — more specifically, what makes us want it. There’s a lot of speculation on the […]

Sloths

Prior to Kristen Bell’s over the top reaction to a live a sloth, the most famous of the hairy, smelly creatures was a cartoon named Sid. While Sid the Sloth […]

By the light of the screen

Story by Cara Pantone Photograhy by David Betts The mesmerizing lights of the computers, phones and gaming devices that are so prevalent in the lives of college students often seem […]