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Should Governments Slap a Tax on Plastic?
More than a billion tons of it could enter the environment in the next 20 years. It's time, advocates say, to put a sin tax on single-use...
Frog Eats Beetle. Beetle Crawls Through Guts to Escape
Regimbartia attenuata doesn’t take too kindly to being eaten. Once locked inside a frog’s maw, it turns around and starts heading...
What Poetry Means for Doctors and Patients During a Pandemic
The poetry editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association talks about medicine, metaphor, and how literature can even improve...
Archaeologists Have Found the Source of Stonehenge’s Boulders
Modern scholars have only been able to speculate about where the huge stones came from—until now.
SpaceX Brings Astronauts Home Safely in a Historic First
That’s a wrap on SpaceX’s crewed demo mission, which clears the way for the company to regularly launch astronauts for NASA.
Archaeologists Have Found the Source of Stonehenge's Boulders
Modern scholars have only been able to speculate about where the huge stones came from—until now.
Why Are Plants Green? The Answer Might Work on Any Planet
A new model of photosynthesis points to an evolutionary principle governing light-harvesting organisms that might apply throughout...
What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
How scientists can repurpose a bacterial immune system to alter DNA, making everything from cheap insulin to extra starchy corn.
What Can Ants and Bees Teach Us About Containing Disease?
Social insects cooperate to curb the spread of pathogens. Maybe their systems of behavior can help human societies battling pandemics...
The Anglerfish Deleted Its Immune System to Fuse With Its...
Underwater “sexual parasitism” between male and female allows two bodies to become one. Now we know the reason why.
