“What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.”
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Uncanny Testimony
As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
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Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
“After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?”
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I Tried Magic Mushrooms for My Mental Health. Here’s What Happened.
“In Colorado, scientists and entrepreneurs are looking to bring psychedelic mushrooms to the masses. Could their purported healing properties help me?”
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Anatomy of an Extinction
“How climate disasters, human sprawl—and now Trump—are coming for America’s largest salamander.”
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When I’m 125?
“What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it.”
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A Flooded Quarry, a Mysterious Millionaire and the Dream of a New Atlantis
“An innovative mission on the Welsh border, funded by an anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea.”
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Hearts and Brains
“Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us.”
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Why the West Needs Prairie Dogs
“They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them.”
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The Feud Tearing the Paleontology World Apart
“Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth.”