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The Met Collection / The Atlantic Lactose Tolerance Is an Evolutionary Puzzle
Could famine be the missing piece?
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Getty Millipedes Have Been Living a Lie
No known creature actually had 1,000 legs—until now.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Unfortunately, Some Cicadas Taste Like Nature’s Gushers
If you must eat them, go for air-fried.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The COVID-Driven Economic Crisis Isn’t Over
Two of our writers discuss the fallout so far—and detail the scary consequences still to come.
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fpm / mikroman6 / Getty / Katie Martin … What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus
The Atlantic’s guide to navigating a global pandemic
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The Atlantic Daily: A Killing More Significant Than Bin Laden’s
He was an “indispensable man.” Plus: Our critics on three buzzy new shows.
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The Atlantic Daily: Our Culture Desk’s Favorite Listening of 2019 ⏯
What our critics loved listening to, from music to podcasts. Plus: Increased anti-Semitism is changing how Jews express themselves in the West.
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The Atlantic Daily: Our Culture Desk’s Favorites of 2019 📺🎬
This year’s best films, TV shows, and most memorable TV moments. Plus: What happens to all the artificial turf that’s run its course?
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P. Ravikumar / Reuters Why a 7-Year-Old Had 547 Teeth
Sometimes stem cells in the jaw don’t work quite like they’re supposed to.
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Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters The Brain-Eating Amoeba Is a Nearly Perfect Killer
The single-celled menace rarely infects humans. That’s what makes it so hard to treat.
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James D. Morgan / Getty Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them
Two specialized muscles give them a range of expression that wolves’ eyes lack.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP A Short History of Presidential Vacillation: Mars or the Moon
President Trump now says he wants NASA to focus on Mars instead of a second moon landing.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Tiny Bees Fed On a Woman’s Tears—But Nature Gets Worse
Here are six other living things you don’t want to get stuck in your eye.
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Robert Daly / Getty Not Quite Triplets, Not Just Siblings
A woman with a rare condition gave birth to three babies: one last month, and twins four weeks later.
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Mark Metcalfe / Getty A New Chapter in the Science of Psychedelic Microdosing
A study on rats offers the first biological evidence that small doses of hallucinogenic drugs could have therapeutic benefits.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Best Combs a Presidential Candidate Could Use to Eat a Salad
Senator Amy Klobuchar reportedly once resorted to this strange method. So I tested out some combs.
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Natural History Museum Rotterdam This Is What Happens When You Drunkenly Swallow a Live Catfish
A hard lesson in a very strange party tradition
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Sergio Perez / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The Best of 2018
Our editors pick their favorite movies, television episodes, music, books, podcasts, and more from the past year
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Jon Elswick / AP The Atlantic Daily: Disarray and Departures
Headed into the government shutdown. Plus withdrawing troops, the five years that changed modern romance, the DNA legacy of the Spanish Inquisition, and more
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Disturbing Trend Behind America’s Soaring Gun Deaths
More Americans were killed by guns in 2017 than ever before. The majority of those deaths were suicides.
