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  • Genesis vs. Geology

    The claim that creationism is a science rests above all on the plausibility of the biblical flood

  • The Quest to End the Flu

    The methods used to make flu vaccines are slow and sometimes unreliable, and new viruses threaten to outrun them. Can researchers find a way to stay ahead?

  • A Conversation With Koko the Gorilla

    An afternoon spent with the famous gorilla who knows sign language, and the scientist who taught her how to “talk”

    Roc Morin
  • Autism's Microbiome

    Researchers believe that gut bacteria may be to blame for some of the condition’s physical and emotional symptoms.

    Nicholette Zeliadt
  • Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures

    To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion.

    Portraits of twelve people making disgusted faces, ordered into two rows of six
  • An Enormous Bird Has a Real-Estate Problem

    The helmeted hornbill can’t procreate without a particular type of tree hole, so scientists are trying to build it artificial ones.

    Yao-Hua Law
    Five squares of an otherwise orange gird reveal trees in a forest
  • The Dark Side of the Houseplant Boom

    American culture is becoming more and more preoccupied with nature. What if all the celebrations of the wild world are actually manifestations of grief?

    Megan Garber
    A GIF of a woman looking at cutouts of plants on a textured pink background
  • Young China at the Crossroads

    The college graduates and the young intellectuals of China are faced today with some terribly difficult decisions. No one knows this better than NORA WALN, the author of The House of Exile and Reaching for the Stars, who has been living and writing in the Orient for the past two years. This is the third Atlantic article drawn from her actual experiences, and for obvious reasons she was careful to disguise the identity of An-kuo, that young Chinese scholar who for a time took refuge in Japan.

  • Bird Language

    On the ponds and marshes of the inland side of Nauset Beach, and in the river estuaries in the neighborhood of Ipswich, DR. WYMAN RICHARDSON has observed the bird life as he has paddled, fished for stripers, or with his son Fred watched in concealment, with his glasses rather than his gun at hand. Dr. Richardson has long been aware that birds communicate, for reasons he explains in this, the sixth of his series of Atlantic essays.

  • Nitrogen Will Leed Us

    Reared on a farm in Utah and later in Colombia, South America, GRANT CANNON now lives in a century-old house on the outskirts of Cincinnati with his wife, Josephine Johnson, and their three children. During the war Mr. Cannon served as a combat intelligence officer with the Fifth Air Force, and since that time he has been managing editor of the Farm Quarterly — a job, he writes us, “which pleases me enormously because of the aesthetic satisfactions which come from publishing such a beautiful as well as useful magazine.”

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