How did we discover the Earth wasn’t round?
In Measure of the Earth, Larrie Ferreiro recounts the fascinating tale of an equatorial expedition to determine the shape of the planet
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The untold story of feathers
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Evolutionary explanation for what ails the west
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Whales in close-up
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Why the universe wasn’t fine-tuned for life
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A stem cell retrospective
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Of astronauts and artists: The romance of space flight
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Where’s my Holodeck? The latest interactive movie news
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Going ape: Ultraviolence and our primate cousins
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How hellish smoke gave Tennessee a poisoned desert
In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles explores the disastrous effects of Appalachian copper mining that helped create US environmental law
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Volcanoes that shaped our world
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Intrigue in the Amazon
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The brave story of how smallpox was wiped out
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Intel anthropologist: Fieldwork with the silicon tribe
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