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Much is being written today on the role of wildlife trade in the COVID pandemic. It would be irresponsible for…
I was listening to the comforting background hum of the old refrigerator in my rented apartment. The noise stopped suddenly;…
Green snow algae are some of Antarctica’s smallest living organisms, delicate enough to examine by microscope. But when they grow…
Originally published in April 1860 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “The terrible epidemic of cattle disease, by its continuous spreading, threatens to…
As the world grapples with how to safely reopen society in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists have been…
The year 2020 was on track to be a good one for South Sudan’s polio hunters. But now many of…
In early April, Maura Lewinger, a mother of three from New York, told CNN about saying goodbye to her 42-year…
More than 200 million people get malaria each year. And about half a million die—mostly in Africa, many of them…
A young Ernest Hemingway, badly injured by an exploding shell on a World War I battlefield, wrote in a letter…