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The Aftermath of a Mass Slaughter at the Zoo
Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again. → Read More
We Begin With a Reckoning
Illustrations by Sarah Biscarra Dilley This article is part of a new series called “Who Owns America’s Wilderness?” America’s first national park is only 15 years younger than The Atlantic, and at this magazine we have long told ourselves that our histories are intertwined. That John Muir made his late-19th-century case for the national parks in our pages is part of institutional lore. We are… → Read More
We Begin With a Reckoning
Illustrations by Sarah Biscarra Dilley This article is part of a new series called “Who Owns America’s Wilderness?” America’s first national park is only 15 years younger than The Atlantic, and at this magazine we have long told ourselves that our histories are intertwined. That John Muir made his late-19th-century case for the national parks in our pages is part of institutional lore. We are… → Read More
It Had to Be the Lakers
Love them or hate them, the NBA’s most storied franchise was the right team for this moment. → Read More
The Panopticon Is Already Here
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. → Read More
The Panopticon Is Already Here
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. → Read More
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world → Read More
What Happens If China Makes First Contact?
As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose. → Read More
Nature's Disastrous ‘Whitewashing’ Editorial
Science's ethos of self-correction should apply to how it thinks about its own history, too. → Read More
The Eclipse as Dark Omen
America’s skies are set to dim at a strange hour of its history. → Read More
A Wondrous New Image of Planet Earth
The Cassini spacecraft gives us a rare glimpse of ourselves from between Saturn's rings. → Read More
Welcome to the Future Range of the Woolly Mammoth
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths. → Read More
Elon Musk Is Betting Big On Donald Trump
He may come to regret it. → Read More
Trump's Dark Age
How the President-elect could affect our ability to understand our changing planet → Read More
Yuri Milner in an Animated Guide to Humanity's First Interstellar Mission
Innovations in space exploration are making galactic travel increasingly tangible. → Read More
How to Jumpstart Life Elsewhere in Our Galaxy
A new paper on “Genesis missions” explains how interstellar probes could accelerate evolution on distant planets. → Read More
Want to Find Intelligent Life on Other Planets? Look for Refrigerators
Could Freon in the atmosphere of a distant planet be the thing that finally confirms humankind is not alone? → Read More
Alien Worlds Might Be Covered in Enormous Mounains
On the sublime scenery that might await us on exoplanets. → Read More
Fancy Math Can’t Make Aliens Real
An astrophysicist says extraterrestrial civilizations “almost certainly” existed at one time or another. Here’s what’s wrong with his argument. → Read More
Inside a Billionaire’s New Interstellar Mission
Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he's recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. In an interview with The Atlantic, Milner makes his case for star travel. → Read More