“Rapid DNA tests, x-ray fluorescence guns, and other technologies are being deployed in the fight against wildlife trafficking.”
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What Kind Of Future Does De-Extinction Promise?
“De-extinction promises not a true reversal of time but a selective one.”
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The Battle Over Black Bears
“A fatality and an increased number of home invasions and attacks have raised the stakes—just in time for spring, when hibernation ends.”
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Meet The Smithsonian Bird Detectives Saving Lives
“Bird residue was not always her forte.”
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The Humanities Aren’t Dead Yet
“Enrollment in the liberal arts has been in freefall for years. But despite apocalyptic declarations about the end of the humanities, in my own classroom I see signs of life.”
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How To Chop An Onion
“If fire and water and salt could transform something pungent, bloody, uncontained into one of savor and energy, what else could be transformed?”
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Three Abandoned Children, Two Missing Parents And a 40-year Mystery
“Good people, she felt, end up doing bad things for many reasons.”
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Frankenstein’s Sheep
“Cloned and genetically modified animals are entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ecosystems.”
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The Incredible Story of Finding My Brother in My 60s
“We were born a week apart, in the same hospital, to different mothers.”
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Cracking the Family Codes
A stash of encrypted diaries raises questions about the secrets we carry, and how they are revealed.
