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As Mountains Rise, Biodiversity Blooms
Steeper, faster, and higher peaks make more species
In Search of the First Animals
A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life
The Last of Their Kind
Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death
At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory
Planet Nurseries Are Smaller Than We Thought
An explanation for the abundance of super-Earths
Why Our Brains Crave Ideology
A neuroscientist reveals how to nurture authentic and flexible thinking
Eastern North America Is a Geological Hotbed
Violent crumpling of rock left a continental edge that is much more interesting than we imagined
