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The Coronavirus Is Evolving Before Our Eyes
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
The helmeted hornbill can’t procreate without a particular type of tree hole, so scientists are trying to build it artificial ones.
Democrats have learned not to peg their hopes to a single major climate bill.
The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways.
Saving the world’s stinkiest plant would be easier if it had any interest in reproducing.
U.S. carbon pollution hasn’t been this low in decades—that’s the bad news.
Spain’s strategy for rolling out the smallpox vaccine ran into some very 19th-century problems.
They have noticed something intriguing coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri.
Giant bubbles hovering over the Milky Way seem to be remnants of an ancient explosion.
An enigmatic group of microbes seems to have an unusual new ability.
I’m just a kindly winter evangelist, standing in front of your outdoor restaurant table, asking you to wear layers.
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
How I became a cook at fire camp
Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.
Even for those who haven’t contracted COVID-19
With days left to go in the month, the number of deaths reported passed April’s high.
Nine countries have now reported outbreaks on mink farms.
Joe Biden’s victory isn’t on the list.
This year is ending with a rare cosmic alignment.
The dwindling number of sharks in the country is threatening an entire micro-economy that relies on them.
Alaska’s abandoned ships are turning into a multimillion-dollar environmental nuisance.