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The Deep Ocean Is a Global Public Good
This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it. -
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How Rodents Spread Across the Earth
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These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies
Other cultures across Asia were preserving their dead for millennia before the Egyptians
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Long Lives Helped Early Humans Thrive
Michael Gurven on the 3 greatest revelations he had while writing Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer
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DNA’s Death Notice
See original manuscripts, letters, photos, and jokes from luminaries like Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, and Linus Pauling
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Does Musical Taste Narrow with Age?
What 450 million song plays tell us about how our listening habits evolve
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Scientists Are People, Too
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Rogue Wave Mystery Solved
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Where Will the Sloths Go?
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