While many people have managed to stockpile food, medicine and cleaning supplies in the face of the pandemic, we as…
Jill Horowitz stood outside the Quaker Ridge Shopping Center in New Rochelle, N.Y.—an early COVID-19 hotspot—in March, stopping shoppers as…
Somewhere between Hawaii and the Philippines near the small island of Guam, far below the surface of the water, sits…
Originally published in January 1967 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Petroleum products are being used in an ingenious effort to upgrade submarginal…
I am an astrophysicist. I read the memories of the universe, encoded in photons—tiny bits of light that have traveled…
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I’m assistant news editor Sarah Lewin Frasier. And here’s a short piece from the May 2020 issue of the magazine,…
The European Union unveiled a €750 billion ($825 billion) recovery package for the coronavirus pandemic yesterday that includes plans to…
Chickens are by far the most numerous birds on the planet, with a population of around 23 billion. But new…
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