Seeing the rich changes votes, but raises the temperature
From a distance, inequality looks like a sterile graph. Up close, it feels personal. A new study suggests that the…
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When Parasites Become Prey: Inside Nature’s Hyperparasite Web
The cabbage leaf hardly moves, yet a small drama is underway. A caterpillar inches along the midrib. A slender black…
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What Your Brain Smells Before You Know You Like It
The instant you catch a whiff of coffee or smoke, your body is already making moves your mind has not…
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Why a Hard Potato Turns Tender and Fluffy in Heat
When the timer dings, the russet that knocked like a stone now yields to a fork as if it is…
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How Colonial Kinshasa Set the Stage for HIV’s Rise
The riverboat eased into Leopoldville at dusk, its whistle mixing with cicada drone and the clatter of freight. On the…
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A Neanderthal’s Long Life, Made Possible by Care
The cave opens like a dark mouth in the limestone of the Zagros Mountains, high above the Great Zab River….
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Meet the vampire moths hiding in plain sight
At dusk in a riverside orchard, a drab brown moth lands on an overripe plum and does something unexpected. It…
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Can Chernobyl’s Black Fungi Turn Radiation Into Food?
In the shadow of Chernobyl’s ruined reactor, something black and stubborn has taken hold. Clinging to concrete and steel where…
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How fur-bearing mammals meet their vitamin D needs
Sunlight threads through forests, deserts, and oceans, touching creatures with skin, scales, and fur. Yet many of those animals are…
