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May 2018

Features

A gold rush of fossil-finding is turning China into the new epicenter of dinosaur research

Richard Conniff, photography by Stefen Chow

If dangling from a rope inside a melting glacier is your idea of a vacation, then come with us to America’s largest national park.

Mark Jenkins, photography by Nathaniel Wilder

As he traveled through Japan and Palestine, the brilliant scientist discovered much he didn’t understand.

Jerry Adler, Photography by Sandra Dionisi

In Britain’s fabled Lake District, shepherds and ecologists are butting heads over the future of a beloved landscape immortalize.

Franz Lidz, Photographs by Kieran Dodds

As its greatest old buildings were falling down, a fearless historian named Eusebio Leal remade the city into a stunning world destination

Tony Perrottet, Photography by Néstor Martí

Discussion of our April Issue

How a bright idea shaped our cities and gave the go-ahead to our love affair with the car.

An artist creates an amazing human figure out of shadow.

It has been extinct for a century. But will the Carolina parakeet fly again?

A wreck-diving archaeologist and his search for a notorious German U-boat.

The memorial, along with a new museum, exposes America's fraught legacy of racial violence from slavery to lynchings to mass incarceration

After one of the longest manhunts in FBI history, the Unabomber was sentenced 20 years ago this month.

Lenneal Henderson and thousands of other protesters occupied the National Mall for 42 days during the landmark Poor People’s Campaign in 1968.

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