Articles by Jessica Leigh Hester

3, 2, 1, little bits of paper!

Above a busy highway, a safe new wildlife crossing in an area that will soon see many more.

This model city is ready for its close-up.

No, it's not a chemtrail. Or space junk. Or aliens.

One generation commutes one way, the next comes back.

Get ready to fall in love all over again.

He revised and revised whenever he took his show on the road.

Pebble Island could be your windy getaway.

A botanist made fantastical sketches of the rain forests' natural wonders.

Outside the big top, this artist did a lot of sightseeing.

Tell us about how you find wonder in spots you encounter all the time.

Meet the menagerie.

They'd been there for centuries.

It's deep, wide, and named after a "Star Wars" character.

Handing out superlatives to some overlooked species.

A ranger initially mistook the clumps for wads of wet toilet paper.

Elizabeth Cushee’s elegant 1745 orb was boundary-pushing at the time.

Not all animal mummies were created equal.

Attention, tinkerers: It's still solvable.

The pictures were taken for science, but found a wider audience because they're gorgeous and a little trippy.

Scientists are able to predict its path.

Digging into the science of three cities' sewer-clogging blobs.

The soaring cones cover a landscape nearly the size of Great Britain.

The life and death of the physical prototype of the kilogram.