Oh Great, Spiders Can Swim
They can eat, breathe, and reproduce underwater too.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Scientists Have Spent 40 Years Trying to Understand Salt
How our tongues distinguish well-seasoned from oversalted is surprisingly complicated.
Maren Caruso / Getty Lush Prairies Could Really Be ‘Green Deserts’
Climate change is stripping plants of their nutrients. That could be a disaster for the animals who feed on them.
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Domesticating horses changed humanity forever. Where and when did it first happen?
Peter van Agtmael / Magnum An ‘Absolute Explosion’ of Stuttering Breakthroughs
Researchers are getting closer to unraveling some of the deepest mysteries about the condition.
The FBI Agents Who Return Stolen Cultural Artifacts
Figuring out where looted treasures belong can take a whole lot of detective work.
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