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Science

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Driving Miss Lazy

The race is on for cars that drive themselves

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Architectural Genetics

A Field Guide to Supernovas

The Willamette Meteorite is on view at the Natural History Museum.

Going Once…Going Twice…

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The Gist’s New Gisters

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On the Prowl

Rare jaguar sightings have sparked a debate about how to ensure the cats’ survival in the American West

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Interview: Steven Amstrup

A new study spotlights the plight of the polar bear, but there’s still time to help the beloved creature

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Wild Things

Life as We Know It

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Galloping Ghosts

In Poland’s primeval forest, a Nazi scientist re-created an extinct breed of horse. Or did he?

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Who’s Fueling Whom?

Why the biofuels movement could run out of gas

Rakesh Jaiswal

India in Peril

Rakesh Jaiswal, founder of ecofriends.org, talks about the country’s growing list of environmental problems

Dancing With the Stars

Sandra Day O’Connor

Ain’t No Lie

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Animal Insight

Recent studies illustrate which traits humans and apes have in common—and which they don’t

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