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Rescuing the Frogs
Indigenous conservation practices in Mexico are helping endangered frogs to recover.
The 5 Most Common Delusions Worldwide
These bizarre beliefs are strikingly prevalent across a diversity of cultures. Why?
5 Amazing New Discoveries About Light
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on Earth?
A thought experiment plumbs archaeology and geology to ask whether our own species will leave a trace.
How to Drive a Car Through a Wall
The winner of 2023’s Best Illusion of the Year contest on the nature of science and magic.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Ecosystem
Caterpillars are a remarkable bellwether of environmental changes.
How the 1918 Pandemic Revolutionized Virology
The 20th century’s deadliest pandemic launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction.
Why Electric Cars Are Taking Off
It’s not that we like EVs more. They’re just way better now.
Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet
How the wager between a neuroscientist and a philosopher will keep paying off.
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.











