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At Death’s Door, He Was Put on Ice
How a new technology is resurrecting patients from what was once certain death.
A Deadly Virus Is Arrested in the Middle East
Halting a MERS pandemic may hold lessons for the Ebola crisis—until the next outbreak.
The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus
The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.
The Greatest Animal War
Competition in Cambrian seas helped cause an explosion in diversity.
The Woods That Time Forgot
In the Mist, a film about a Canary Island forest, opens the archives of Earth’s history.
Why Your Cat Doesn’t Have a Sweet Tooth
Moles don’t see, whales can’t smell, and snakes can’t hear a thing.











