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Rodger Mallison/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty How to Poison Feral Hogs (And Only Feral Hogs)
The animals are so destructive that they cost the United States billions every year, but actually doing something about it isn’t so simple.
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Xinhua / Ou Dongqu via Getty The Future of American Radio Astronomy Now Depends on China
After Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope collapsed late last year, the researchers who depended on it are in a tough position.
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Joe Lamberti / The Daily Times / AP Billions of Day-Old Chicks Are Shredded, Gassed, and Suffocated
Everyone wants to end “chick culling.” So what’s the holdup?
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Mark Rightmire / Orange County Register / Getty The Corpse Flower Is Not in the Mood
Saving the world’s stinkiest plant would be easier if it had any interest in reproducing.
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Luis Ortega Operation Chinchilla Is a Go
Twenty-five of the endangered rodents are living on top of a multibillion-dollar Chilean gold reserve. Miners are going to great lengths to relocate them.
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Clint Turnage / USDA The Clock Is Ticking on America’s ‘Feral Swine Bomb’
Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year.
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Theo Whitcomb Sixty-Thousand Evictions in the Name of Environmentalism
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is relocating whole slums to help restore polluted rivers. Is it doing more harm than good?
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Undark Americans Are Spending Billions on Unnecessary Dental Treatments
The evidence that braces make you healthier is shaky at best.
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Wir0man / Getty How NASA Launched a Revolution in Biology
The space agency was conceived as an answer to Sputnik, but it quickly became much more.
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Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty The Ripple Effects of a Space Skirmish
If a conflict breaks out between countries with weapons in orbit, it could threaten space access for everyone.
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Wakil Kohsar / AFP /Getty There’s No Playbook for Treating Gunshot Wounds in Babies
Doctors in Afghanistan are scrambling to address the country’s wave of infant war injuries.
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Getty / The Atlantic Coronavirus Researchers Tried to Warn Us
Before the pandemic hit, they struggled to get funding that might have hastened treatments for COVID-19.
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Frankie Schembri It Was Supposed to Detect Fraud. It Wrongfully Accused Thousands Instead.
How Michigan’s attempt to automate its unemployment system went horribly wrong
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Ye Aung Thu /AFP / Getty How Bats Might Have Tamed the Coronavirus
The animals have a remarkable resilience to all sorts of diseases that afflict humans.
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Hetherington / IWM / Magnum Photos The Rwandans Offering Themselves as Mosquito Bait
In the fight against malaria, sometimes bed nets and pesticides just aren’t enough.
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Dai Mar Tamarack / Shutterstock Hawaiian Birds Are Losing Their Songs
Three species of honeycreeper now sing much more similar songs, as their populations decline.
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Cesar Manso / Stringer / Getty ‘Pure Poison’ for a Scholarly Career
Researchers have spent centuries failing to decipher a medieval manuscript’s baffling drawings of plants, naked women, and astrological symbols. Is it worth the effort?
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Ute Grabowsky / Photothek via Getty The Problem That Psychology Can’t Shake
Ten years after a seminal paper laid bare psychology’s white, affluent, Western skew, not much has changed.
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Towfiqu Photography / Getty What Doctors Can Learn From the Dark Web
Opioid addicts are turning to online forums for advice about quitting. Their conversations have a lot to teach us about drug use and public health.
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James Gathany / AP Why There’s Still No Lyme Vaccine for Humans
False starts and fear have kept such a drug off the market for two decades.
