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The land is ten gently sloping acres in rural southeastern Pennsylvania, at one time mowed for hay, with a handsome farmhouse that Douglas Tallamy bought around 20 years ago. It [...]

New gene-editing technology gives scientists the ability to wipe out the carriers of malaria and the Zika virus. But should they use it? TO THE NAKED EYE. THE EGG OF [...]

The human face is powered, depending on how you count them, by between 23 and 43 muscles, many of which attach to the skin, serving no obvious function for survival. [...]

Telepathy, circa 23rd century: The Vulcan mind meld, accomplished by touching the temples with the fingertips, is an accepted technique for advancing the plot of a 'Star Trek' episode with [...]

Do you want to see it?' Ric Gillespie asks, reaching for a black portfolio resting on the floor of his Pennsylvania farmhouse. He extracts a sheet of aluminum, about 18 [...]

Separated by eight years, a dozen subway stops and a vast socioeconomic distance, Erica Mateo and Max Kenner had one thing in common growing up: They were no one's candidates [...]

Devastating droughts, killer storms, flooded cities, raging tropical diseases--you've heard that climate change promises a host of catastrophes. But the reality of a hotter world will probably be more subtle--and [...]

A.D. 2013 UR WALK THROUGH TIME begins on a country lane in the village of Kingston Saint Mary, in southwestern England. This is a pilgrimage of sorts, a hike that [...]

Byline: Jerry Adler Stephen Hawking, the legendary physicist, cosmologist and world-famous author, died on Wednesday at the age of 76. Here's our 1988 cover story on Hawking, published around the [...]

Wherever humane have gone In the world, they have carried with them two things, language and fire. As they traveled through tropical forests they hoarded the precious embers of old [...]

Glen Whitney stands at a point on the surface of the Earth, north latitude 40.742087, west longitude 73.988242, which is near the center of Madison Square Park, in New York [...]

The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian [...]

Under the warm August sun, the wiry, lushly bearded farmer moves at a slow walk through the field, swinging his scythe in a steady rhythm, the tawny stalks of wheat [...]

LATE ON A RAINY EVENING IN MARCH, the black-sweatered crowd filled the hallways of New York City's Institute of Culinary Education. It was late because that's when many of the [...]

IN EARLY 1934, THE UNITED STATES was near the depths of what we hope will not go down in history as the First Great Depression. Unemployment was close to 25 [...]

ON A HOT MORNING in early August, the primate census of Cayo Santiago, a 38-acre island just off the coast of Puerto Rico, numbers approximately 875. Of those, 861 are [...]

Sigmund Freud, the theoretician who explored a vast new realm of the mind, the unconscious, was driven by the Nazis from his beloved Vienna, and died in London in 1939, but he still haunts us. Freud was a philosopher who identified childhood experience, not racial destiny or family fate, as the determinant of character, and was a therapist who invented a specific form of treatment called psychoanalysis, involving recollection and reflection to a sympathetic professional.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a good candidate to be the next Governor of California. However, Arnold has not made up his mind regarding the elections as he is awaiting the release of his film 'Terminator 3'.

This article describes the devastation caused by the earthquake in Turkey in August 1999. Relevant points include the efforts of rescuers to dig out survivors and the bodies of victims, the role of shoddy construction in exacerbating the death toll, and the geological forces that bring about earthquakes in Turkey and around the world.

Science has proven that psychological stress has deleterious physical consequences on the cardiovascular system, immune system, and other bodily systems. It affects men, women and children differently. Childhood stress is increasing. Meditation, massage, exercise and social relations can help manage stress. Stress is part of the evolutionary inheritance rooted in the fight-or-flight response.

The year 1998 is reviewed with an emphasis on the entertainment industry and celebrities, though politics are also represented. The focus is humorous, with stories such as the Norweigian college student who was barred from classes because he smelt bad.

When death can to one of the century's great villains, the world mourned only that he won't be tried for his crimes He kept a clear conscience up until the [...]

As a teenager, his biographers tell us, Henry Ford loved to fix pocket watches. He would open up the backs and poke around inside that marvelous universe of balance wheels, [...]

Driving home from Thanksgiving dinner in New London, Conn., to Spencertown, N.Y., the Kirsch family talked about the tree. They've had one every Christmas since Claudia Ricci and Richard Kirsch [...]

One baby at a time is child's play. Raising multiples takes a village--and then some. MANY PARENTS, LIKE THE MCCAUGHEYS, regard their children as gifts from God, which is very [...]

Dealing with death: Let children grieve, the experts say. Don't shield them from loss, but help them express their fear and anger. BY JERRY ADLER HE PAIN NEVER GOES AWAY,' [...]

Like Charles, the princes have a sense of duty and a keen interest in the outdoors. Like Diana, they are sensitive and sunny. Will both sides survive? SHE HAD TRIED, [...]

Long famous for mean streets and even meaner people, New York City is spiting itself up-- and finally rejoining the rest of the country TOUGH TOWN, NEW YORK. BEFORE leaving [...]

There is a myth a lot of people still have about fans of stock-car racing, that if they didn't have a race to go to, they would be just as [...]

In orbit, three men--two Russians, one American--struggle to survive a terrifying mishap. Inside the debacle. BY BILL POWELL AND JERRY ADLER THE THREE MEN FELT THE crash the instant it [...]

The last monster of the 20th century, Pol Pot tried to remake Cambodia by destroying it. His legacy is the death of more than 1 million people. Now can his [...]

They would just disappear. What made these ordinary people turn a search for solace into a suicide mission? HE HAD, ACCORDING TO EVERYone who knew him, a beautiful voice, and [...]

Try to escape fun, and it will seek you out at your hotel or restaurant, where food will mingle with rock climbing and giant-screen TV IT IS THE PROMISE OF [...]

She spent her short life in the spangled universe of children's pageants, a glitzy culture that's bigger than you might think. IN PHOTOGRAPHS, HER CHARACTERISTIC expression is a fixed smile [...]

Why this time-honored threat is still so tempting--and threatening to fathers as well as kids It was the most ominous sentence ever uttered in my childhood home, the one that […]

IT WAS A FAMILIAR WASHington story, of a powerful man brought down by a woman. But although human nature doesn't change very quickly, even in Washington, society does, sometimes in [...]

IT WAS AN ORDINARY GREEN KNAPSACK, LYING ON the ground at a rock concert. At almost any other time or place in America, anyone who saw it would probably think: [...]

HOW DO WE ASSESS A MAN'S LIFE? THE LATE William S. Paley, founder and longtime chairman of CBS, devoted his life to the pursuit of wealth, power, fame and worldly [...]

The trails of Mount Everest were jammed last week with climbers--and dead bodies. Are too many adventures going where they don't belong? IT IS AN AREA ABOUT THE SIZE OF [...]

WARD DUFT MOVED TO SEATTLE IN THE SPRING OF 1991 AND HE liked it right away, even though it was all a mistake. He arrived at the wheel of a [...]