‘Parachute Science’ Doesn’t Work in a Pandemic
In the rain forests of Borneo, Sahril Ramadani wakes before sunrise to the high-pitched shrieks of gibbons. Fumbling in the dark, he packs up his essentials for the day: hand…
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How Will We Remember COVID-19?
Illustrations by Chloe Scheffe This article was published online on April 6, 2021. My plague year began on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, 2020, when I was compelled to…
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Beaked Whales Are Holding Their Breath Right Now
The marine biologist Jay Barlow likes to say that he went looking for the last of the Ice Age mastodons and instead bumped into a unicorn. It’s a land-based metaphor…
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Of Miracles and Multiverses – The Atlantic
Photographs by Balarama Heller On the morning of October 13, 1917, a year from the end of World War I, a crowd of tens of thousands gathered in the town…
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Our Year on Zoom: A Photo Essay
Photographs by Thomas Dworzak Zoom, for most of us, arrived last year. And didn’t it feel right on time? Eerily on the button. As if the nine-foot locusts that run…
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Mummichogs Survived Decades of Industrial Pollution
Originating in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, just south of the Chesapeake Bay, the Elizabeth River is turbid and brackish, its banks redolent with the nose-wrinkling stench of rotting…
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Can Long COVID Be Treated?
Photographs by Jonno Rattman Image above: Nearly a year after she was infected with the coronavirus, Caitlin Barber still uses a wheelchair outside. This article was published online on March…
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Is Aid in Dying a Better Death?
The first thing Dr. Lonny Shavelson thought when he stepped into the room was This is a bad room to die in. It was small and stuffy and there weren’t…
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The Mediterranean’s Red Coral Colonies Are Shrinking
On a golden day last September, I visited the ruins of the first Greek city on the Iberian Peninsula, a settlement from the sixth century B.C. called Empúries. Traders venturing…
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A Deep-Sea Parasite Ekes Out Life in Hydrothermal Vents
In my personal opinion, the greatest coming-of-age story on Earth does not take place in a Dickens novel or a Disney movie, but rather in a white fish at the…
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