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An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.
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An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.
Sonia Shah The New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 15min Permalink
A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.
Elizabeth Weil ProPublica Jan 2021 15min Permalink
Inside a Michelin-starred chef’s revolutionary quest to harvest rice from the sea.
Matt Goulding Time Jan 2021 20min Permalink
Thirty years after it was first pioneered, the Brain Fingerprinting system is finally being put to the test.
Tim Stelloh OneZero Jan 2021 20min Permalink
What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 30min Permalink
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 25min Permalink
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
Steven Lance The Atavist Magazine Dec 2020 1h10min Permalink
A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.
Barry Lopez Orion Aug 2020 15min Permalink
Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.
Douglas Preston New Yorker Dec 2020 25min Permalink
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Dec 2020 Permalink
How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes.
Kiera Feldman Los Angeles Times Dec 2020 25min Permalink
And what it lost in the process.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Dec 2020 20min Permalink
California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.
John Branch The New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
A growing body of research suggests that trees can communicate and cooperate in the wild.
Ferris Jabr New York Times Magazine Dec 2020 25min Permalink
The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.
Guy Babineau Xtra West Nov 2007 20min Permalink
He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?
Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink
A 17,000-word exploration of the Sahara Desert, the hottest place on Earth.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic Nov 1991 1h10min Permalink
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Nov 2020 35min Permalink
The pandemic comes to Star City, the secretive home of Russia’s space program.
Polina Ivanova Reuters Nov 2020 20min Permalink
For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.
Sukhada Tatke Fifty Two Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Christiaan Huygens’ early work on probability paved the way for his very modern evaluation of what alien life might look like.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams The Public Domain Review Oct 2020 20min Permalink
A trip to one of America’s quietest places and the guy who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.
Kathleen Dean Moore Orion Nov 2008 15min Permalink
Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.
Samanth Subramanian Huffington Post Highline Oct 2020 50min Permalink
How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.
Rosanna Xia Los Angeles Times Oct 2020 30min Permalink