Ventura Highway. Route 66. Highway 61. The New Jersey Turnpike. Santa Monica Boulevard. For as long as there's been cars and rock 'n' roll, musicians have been inspired to write songs about roads ...

Long before Earth resembled its current state, López-García says, these microbial mats “were the forests of the past,” adding that scientists now use these clumps of microscopic life “as analogs of ...