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DeLorean Tremens

Hold onto your flux capacitors, time machines have nearly arrived

Cowbirds (a male, above) "are more highly evolved than we previously thought," says Jeff Hoover.

Wiseguys with Wings

“Mafia” cowbirds muscle warblers into raising their young

"If global warming's worst predictions come true in 100 years," says Fabio Carrera, "the real issue is preserving Venice as a liveable place—not stopping the occasional tide from coming in."

Venice’s Uncertainty

A new floodgate system should protect the city from high tides—unless climate change interferes

Roald Amundsen and his crew looking at the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911

Antarctica’s Lost & Found Dept.

A Space-Time Anomaly of Matter-Energy Reactions

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Planet — well, Forest — of the Apes

IKEA’s $.05 Campaign to Save the Environment

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Scannable Birds? New DNA Barcodes Classify Nature

Chart showing the increase in autism diagnosis

Aut Couture

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The Good News Is Fewer Than 1/3 Of Us Know Basic Science

For The Birds

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Tool Time

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They Came For The Martians, And I Was Silent Because I Was Not A Martian

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Seeds Kept Safe in Arctic Circle Vault

Corn is the main feedstock used for producing ethanol fuel in the United States.

Finding Alternatives to Bush’s Alternative Fuels

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Maria Zuber

On the surprise evidence of flowing water on Mars

Jokim Githuka, 3, displays a portrait of his dead father, Robert Njoya, in a Kenyan maize field. Other sons stand by his grave with Njoya's widow, Serah. The trial of his undisputed killer, Thomas Cholmondely, has electrified this former British colony.

Death in Happy Valley

A son of the colonial aristocracy goes on trial for killing a poacher in Kenya, where an exploding human population is heightening tensions

The ozone hole over Antarctica is recovering. Can the lessons be applied to today's climate crisis?

Ahead in the Clouds

Susan Solomon helped patch the ozone hole. Now, as a leader of a major United Nations report—out this month—she’s going after global warming

For hundreds of years the Parsi people of Mumbai have left their dead on the Towers of Silence, to be consumed by vultures. Now the sacred practice is in peril.

The Vanishing

Little noticed by the outside world, perhaps the most dramatic decline of a wild animal in history has been taking place in India and Pakistan

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Flying mammals, Galápagos iguanas and sidewalk songbirds

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