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‘Dr. Phosphine’ and the Possibility of Life on Venus

By Sarah Scoles

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The 20-Year Hunt for the Man Behind the Love Bug Virus

By Geoff White

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In China, GitHub Is a Free Speech Zone for Covid Information

By Yi-Ling Liu

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How to Escape From an Erupting Volcano

By Cody Cassidy

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Gravity, Gizmos, and a Grand Theory of Interstellar Travel

By Daniel Oberhaus

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A Saudi Prince's Attempt to Silence Critics on Twitter

By Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck

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The Oysters That Knew What Time It Was

By Jo Marchant

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The Prince of Georgia Is Big on Instagram

By Amos Barshad

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How to Undo Gender Stereotypes in Math—With Math!

By Eugenia Cheng

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A Rocket Scientist’s Love Algorithm Adds Up During Covid-19

By Stephen Marche

Culture

My Week of Radical Transparency at a Chinese Business Seminar

By Yiren Lu

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She Helped Wreck the News Business. Here’s Her Plan to Fix It

By Gilad Edelman

Business

One IT Guy’s Spreadsheet-Fueled Race to Restore Voting Rights

By Jack Hitt

Security

The Furious Hunt for the MAGA Bomber

By Garrett M. Graff

Science

San Francisco Was Uniquely Prepared for Covid-19

By Daniel Duane

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The Tragic Physics of the Deadly Explosion in Beirut

By Rachel Lance

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How Courthouse Break-ins Landed 2 White Hat Hackers in Jail

By Andy Greenberg

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The American Scientists Who Saved London From Nazi Drones

By Jamie Holmes

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TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface

By Jason Parham

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The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown

By Robert Peck

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There's No Such Thing as Family Secrets in the Age of 23andMe

By Caitlin Harrington

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All Those Cute Selfies Are Loving Nature to Death

By Rebecca Giggs

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How to Outrun a Dinosaur

By Cody Cassidy

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How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic

By Andrew Leonard