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The amazing underwater athletes are rewriting the science of the body.

Why the Great Red Spot refuses to die.

How counting sunspots unites the past and future of science.

Anxious distillers are trying to make bourbon old before its time.

People want permanent tombstones that also show decay.

How photographing the world’s oldest living things pushed me outside the boundaries of science.

The idea that some species are relics that have stopped evolving is finally going extinct.

Portable slow-light technology could measure the speed of glaciers in real time.

How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth.

A day in the war between the city and its mountains.

A roving meditation on nature, literature, and the joy of collecting flies.