How a research team at the University of Michigan uses online role-playing to educate and engage the minds of Midwestern schoolchildren

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The circus founder played a small, peculiar role in the nascent activist movement—one that would later cheer the end of the “Greatest Show on Earth.”

Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year.

But two simple changes can help.

The ocean’s bivalves might hold a few clues to the great mysteries of aging.