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Rat Disease Has a New Pick-Me-Up
Drugs in human waste may shape how disease spreads from rats to humans
The Emergence of a Deadly Hunting Technology in Prehistoric North America
The atlatl is handy enough to re-invent across cultures
Watch Bison Fend Off a Wolf Attack on a Newborn Calf
They’re not usually considered prey for wolves
Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?
Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer
Lung-on-a-Chip Reveals How Asthma Attacks Permanently Change Airways
Researchers built a cultured lung and gave it an asthma attack
The Trouble with Trash
A conversation with a trash man turned sociologist about our dangerous waste problem and the heroics that hide it
11 Books to Read This July
Marvelous maggots, biological warfare, AI survivalists, space myths, and more
When Earth Was an Asteroid Rain Hell
The constant barrage made it impossible for continents to form in the planet’s early days
Inside the Brain of a 319-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish
It paves the way for understanding how ray-finned fishes came to dominate Earth’s oceans
There May Be Three Times More Insect Species Than We Realized
The overwhelming majority are unknown to science
Evidence of Recently Discovered Bat Behavior Found Hiding in Plain Sight in Renaissance Painting
The Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder captured the bird-eating behavior in 1611
What Do You Do When You Lose Gigantic Megalodon Shark Vertebrae?
Megalodons were the apex predators of the Miocene seas
