Svea Gerhardt

13/06/2023

"Hideyoshi and His Troops Leaving Nagoya Camp," Tsukioka Yosh*toshi, 19th century.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

23/05/2023

The environmental conditions at the site of Vindolanda that preserve wooden tablets also keep other items, like this leather shoe, intact over the centuries.

09/05/2023

The Sword of State, ​from 1678, features a steel blade and gilt-silver hilt. It is also used during the opening of Parliament.

11/04/2023

The vivid yellow Physarum polycephalum has intrigued scientists: Though the species has no brain, it can identify the shortest path through a maze and remember food locations by imprinting them in the tubes that make up its body.

20/03/2023

First light hits Gothic Mountain in early February, when much of life hibernates. What happens next as nature’s schedule continues to shift in every wild system? We’re about to find out.

11/03/2023

"Red plum’s buds endure the snowy winter/Green willow’s catkin marks the new spring." Nearly 14 centuries after Li Bai, tourists in a park in Chongqing feast on a color show of red plums.