There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under. The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?
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Pam Houston on Coming Clean, Climate Change, and ‘Writing Deeply Into the Grasses’
Pam Houston’s new memoir is an ode to her beloved ranch, but also deals directly with the harrowing moments of childhood abuse that her fictional characters have been living through for years.
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The Weather and the Wall
Climate change and the border wall are more connected than you might think.
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The Hunt for Planet Nine
What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
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‘What If We Just Got Out of Nature’s Way?’
Instead of building seawalls or raising the land to prepare for rising sea levels, California’s Imperial Beach is considering moving the town a few blocks back from the ocean.
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Our Understanding of Sun Exposure and Health Keeps Evolving
Who would have thought scientists would ever compare wearing sunscreen to smoking cigarettes? At Outside magazine, Rowan Jacobsen explores.
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A Race to Claim a Piece of Space: The Out-of-This World Obsession of Meteorite Hunters
Meteorite hunters Mike Farmer and Robert Ward travel to Carancas, a tiny village at 12,000 feet in Peru’s remote altiplano, to examine a crater in the hope to claim precious rock from space.
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The Science of Dreaming
Science journalist Alice Robb on why we need to take our dreams seriously.
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The Bat-Borne Virus That Threatens to Become the Next Pandemic
Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.
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You’re Fine, and So Is Your Baby
If new parents say they don’t have intrusive thoughts about harm befalling their babies, “they’re lying.”