Evolution doesn’t always move inextricably forward, instead sometimes taking the occasional detour or even getting stuck in never-ending circles. In Madison, Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota, bacteria evolves ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Though we know about this loophole from the opening pages of the first volume, it is more ...

In Groundhog Day, some unexplained force — maybe celestial, certainly moral — traps misanthropic weatherman Bill Murray in a single, repeated day until he sheds his attitude and becomes a better ...