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How Tourists Are Rescuing the Ancient City of Palmyra
Photographs taken from before terrorists destroyed the site are helping researchers digitally resurrect it.
A Plastic Oasis in the Sea
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t all garbage. It’s also an ecosystem.
Maybe Playing Dead Will Get Him to Leave You Alone?
These female frogs fake death and pretend to be the opposite sex to head off unwanted male attention.
A Fragile Equilibrium
Inside one national park’s quest to make peace between humans and animals.
Elephants Are Total Scaredy-Cats Around Bees
The buzz on preventing elephants from plundering communities.
Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard?
The qualities of our experience seem impossible to describe scientifically, but maybe we’re just not thinking about them right.
Clever Apes in the Modern Workplace
Psychologist Robin Dunbar’s latest book argues companies are social groups that can’t be perfected like a machine.











