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Between fifteen and twenty million Americans do something in secret every April that the rest of the nation hasn’t yet figured out. They submit a request…

When you’re making an investment, there is a specific type of mistake that doesn’t feel like a mistake. It feels like caution. It feels like pattern…

Imagine a researcher typing up results that didn’t quite happen as the paper will claim, perhaps in a rented apartment in Cairo or a university office…

With the steam rising from the thermal basins, the frost still clinging to lodgepole pines, and the ground appearing perfectly normal underfoot, Yellowstone experiences a unique…

The image of a lump of rock and ice that is only a kilometer across tumbling through the inner solar system and then, in defiance of…

Imagine a Friday night at a busy restaurant, where servers are carrying plates, reciting specials, moving between tables without pausing, and handling complaints with a composure…

Everyone who has attempted to purchase a home is aware of the particular stress associated with the mortgage process: paperwork arriving at strange hours, rate inquiries…

Tiny bones cover the floor of a cave in Dorset, Vermont. Bat skulls, dozens of them, scattered like dry debris across the rock. Biologists who first…

Mike Fincke lost his ability to speak at dinnertime on the International Space Station, which was located 250 miles above Earth. No caution. No discomfort. He…

Denis Maksimov asked Vladimir Putin for assistance while standing in front of his bakery in Kraskovo, a sleepy working-class town east of Moscow with modest storefronts…