The Turtle Poachers Say They Have No Choice
During the pandemic, hungry Costa Ricans have been resorting to an illegal practice that was once on the decline.
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How Do We Know What Ancient People Ate? Their Dirty Dishes.
New scientific techniques have turned ancient food into less of a mystery.
The Trash Parrots of Australia Are Very Annoying but Very Clever
Parrots in the suburbs of Sydney are learning how to open trash cans from one another.
Are Wind Turbines a Danger to Wildlife? Ask the Dogs.
Humans are terrible at finding bats and birds killed by wind turbines. Dogs are great at it.
We’re Zeroing In On the ‘Holy Grail’ of COVID-19 Immunity
There’s no good way of measuring whether your vaccine worked—yet.
Why Do Mammals Kill Each Other?
A grisly census hints at a few reasons some of our closest kin might take each other’s lives.
Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47
It reshaped how the world thought about climate change. But its prized trait—bloodless economic efficiency—won it few friends on the right or left.
Jeff Bezos Knows Who Paid for Him to Go to Space
The world’s richest man commissioned the rocket, but his Amazon empire—the customers and the workers—covered the bill.
Vaccination in America Might Have Only One Tragic Path Forward
COVID-19 vaccination rates have fallen off a cliff. Will it take a deadly summer surge to change things?
Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Cross a Cosmically Controversial Line
The billionaire is preparing to fly to space—but where does space actually begin?