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Indigenous conservation practices in Mexico are helping endangered frogs to recover.

These bizarre beliefs are strikingly prevalent across a diversity of cultures. Why?

Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.

A thought experiment plumbs archaeology and geology to ask whether our own species will leave a trace.

The winner of 2023’s Best Illusion of the Year contest on the nature of science and magic.

Caterpillars are a remarkable bellwether of environmental changes.

Nuclear winter is scary as hell. Spread the word.

The 20th century’s deadliest pandemic launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction.

It’s not that we like EVs more. They’re just way better now.

How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off.

By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.

The dangerous chemistry of cheaply made lithium batteries.