Why This Weird Compass Was Such a Big Deal

How to Ship 800 Billion Pounds of Rock (The Marquette Ore Docks)

Modern Life Depends on This Extinct Rock | Banded Iron Formations

Behind the Scenes of a $3 Billion Megaproject (Soo Locks Tour)

If This Breaks, the U.S. Could Lose $1 Trillion | The Soo Locks

This Island Has THOUSANDS of Fossils | Drummond Island, Michigan

The Bizarre Experiments of William Beaumont | Mackinac Island, Michigan

How They Made This Record-Breaking Bridge | Portage Lake Bridge, Michigan

The Oldest Creature You Can See without a Microscope? | Michigan's Grypania

What's It Like Living in the Upper Peninsula? (Q&A)

Logging made me feel squirmy, so I went to forestry camp.

What Made This Giant Wall? | Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

This Tractor Runs on Soybeans (Michigan's Amazing Farmers & Engineers)

Flooded Mountains in Lake Superior? | Huron Island Lighthouse, Michigan

How Do Sailboats Go Against the Wind? (ft. a Great Lakes Schooner)

Michigan's Billion-Year-Old Glowing Rocks | "Yooper" Stones

Henry Ford's "Utopian" Towns | Alberta, Michigan

Are These Creatures in Your Spring Puddles? | Vernal Pools

Please Ignore This Giant Bronze Statue (and other stories from Detroit’s Belle Isle)

How Do Archaeologists Figure Out What Ruins Were? | The Cliff Mine Archaeology Project

The Biggest Lava Flow on Earth (Might Be in Michigan)

I Could've Stood Here 1 Billion Years Ago | The Story of Blackrocks

Things are changing (but it's not that scary)!

What Happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald? The Great Lakes' Biggest Shipwreck

One Trip on This Railroad Cost $65 Million | The Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad

The Agate Mystery: Why We Can't Synthesize This Common Gem

How Forests Built the Detroit Auto Industry

How to Make 1 Million Copper Bars | The Quincy Smelter

The Largest Steam Hoist on Earth | The Nordberg Hoist, Quincy Mine #2

Deadly Genius: The Engineering of the Quincy Copper Mine | Quincy Mine #1

Why This Scientist Buried 20 Secret Bottles | The Beal Seed Experiment

When the Seafloor Broke: The Story of Kitch-iti-kipi | Manistique, Michigan

How to Discover Incredible Stories in Your Backyard

White City: Michigan’s Lost Amusement Park

Could You Make It as a Lighthouse Keeper? (I Couldn't)

4 Lessons from My First Year in the Upper Peninsula

The Toledo War was more chaotic than I thought.

The Invention That Saved a Million Ships | Fresnel Lens Lighthouse Tour

The Science of Michigan's Ancient Mountain | Sugarloaf Mountain, Michigan

The Meteorite That Buried Michigan | The Sudbury Impact

If You're Breathing, Maybe Thank the Moon | The Middle Island Sinkhole

A Few Things It's Helpful to Know About Me

Lava, Ice, and Ancient Seas: How Michigan Got Its Pictured Rocks

Why Do Fluorescent Lights and Power Lines Buzz? | #VeritasiumContest

4 Minutes of Peace in Canyon Falls, Michigan | Piano & Waterfall Sounds

Meet the Toxic Sand Vacuum | Torch Lake, Michigan

Why Are Some Beaches Squeaky? (The Legend of the Singing Sand) | Bete Grise, Michigan

How I Became a Professional Science Writer

The Story of the Bacon Rock | Jacobsville Sandstone

A Lighthouse Built on Old Lava | Eagle Harbor Lighthouse, Michigan

A Secret Glacier Playground in Ann Arbor, Michigan

At This Spot, North America Almost Split in Two | The Midcontinent Rift

This Is a Real Picture of Another Solar System

Why This Rock (Almost) Only Appears in Oklahoma | Rose Rocks

Why My Engagement Ring Changes Color | The Alexandrite Effect

Why Michigan Is Full of Extinct Coral Fossils | Petoskey Stones

Is a Smithsonian Internship Worth It?

I Was with the Mission Team When New Horizons Passed Pluto

Thoughts from Places: Chicago