Anesthesia might be the greatest medical advancement in human history (seriously, imagine having surgery without it), but there’s still a shocking amount we...
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Cephalopods like octopus, squid, and cuttlefish seem to be as alien as any alien creature from a sci-fi movie, and it’s fun to speculate that they could be aliens...
Airships took over the skies and imaginations of the early 20th century. They were a symbol of technological progress and a prosperous future. And then, they vanished...
David Quammen is the author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, which eerily predicted the kind of zoonotic virus outbreaks that we’re...
The novel coronavirus pandemic has officially destabilized our economy, our workplaces, and our homes. That’s the bad news. The worse news? It won’t be the...