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An ‘Absolute Explosion’ of Stuttering Breakthroughs
Researchers are getting closer to unraveling some of the deepest mysteries about the condition.
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Tim Peake / ESA/NASA / Getty Earth Was a Very Different Place Before Mud
A great mud boom 400 million years ago changed features such as the shape of rivers and the planet’s biodiversity.
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Kaveh Kazemi / Getty ‘Contact Languages’ Don’t Get the Respect They Deserve
They’re dying out at an astonishing rate, and saving them is no easy task.
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SARAH DEL BEN / WID TOUCH / FONDATION ... The Rush to Sock Away Glacier Ice Before It All Melts
A snow-covered vault in Antarctica could help preserve chunks of disappearing glaciers.
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Aimee Silla How to Teach a Frog to Love
Amphibians are dying off faster than any other vertebrate group in the world. Can hormones and IVF save them?
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NASA The Space Between Galaxies Isn’t Empty
Most of the atoms in the universe lie in its flyover country.
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Emily Osterloff / National History Museum What Fossils Alone Can’t Explain About Dinosaurs
When time is measured in 10-million-year blocks, the lines between ecosystems and animals that would never have coexisted can get blurry.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty A Leaky Memory May Be a Good Thing
“Active forgetting” could make your brain more efficient.
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Terry Fincher / Getty The Actual Skeletons in Your Closet
The laws that determine how human bodies are handled differ dramatically by state.
