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The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

In December 1855 and January 1856, a trio of vessels set sail from the United States to...

The ‘Mekong ghost’ megafish has resurfaced after an extinction scare 

The “Mekong ghost” fish is a ghost no more. Like the legendary Rip Van Winkle, who wandered...

How insects can help catch rhino poachers

In 1988, police officers in Australia came for Ian Dadour. Not because the entomologist was under arrest,...

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit journalism organization.It’s...

A new implant tested in animals reverses drug overdoses

Naloxone has saved thousands of lives by reversing opioid overdoses. But its success hinges on someone being...

Polar bears are being exposed to more pathogens as the climate warms

Polar bears face mounting challenges in a changing, warming world, mostly related to their waning wintery wonderland...

Silk Road cities reached surprising heights in Central Asia’s mountains

Two high-altitude, medieval cities built by mobile herders along Silk Road trade routes in Central Asia have...

The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug

Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies...

Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work 

To fuel the insatiable energy appetite of artificial intelligence, tech companies are going big on small nuclear...

Here’s What the Regenerative Cities of Tomorrow Could Look Like

Cities are never truly complete and done; instead they are always changing, always evolving. One positive change...

JWST spots the first known ‘steam world’

This exoplanet’s atmosphere is going full steam ahead. A planet beyond our solar system called GJ 9827d...

Once-weekly insulin might mean fewer shots for some with diabetes

Life with diabetes usually includes many injections of the blood sugar–controlling hormone insulin. Recent research investigating a...
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