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Cardiologist Dr. Eiman Jahangir was born during a war in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States at age four, settling in Nashville, Tennessee. He grew up with dreams of becoming a doctor an...
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I tally the dead. I tally today’s dead. I seek a tally of the dead or seek yesterday’s dead. I try to count them, the dead. Reports tell me there are, today, more dead. I announce the dead—the house i...
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Whether it’s the belly, armpits, or feet, many people are ticklish at least somewhere on their body. Nevertheless, scientists have paid little attention to the silly sensation. As such, two researcher...
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In Ecuador’s Chocó Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve, a 709,192-acre biodiversity hotspot northwest of Quito, hummingbirds thrive. The country is home to roughly 132 of the world’s 320-plus hummin...
The sight of military troops patrolling in a peaceful American city would once have been strange, if not outright alarming. But since last August, when Donald Trump first deployed the National Guard t...
For years, Iran confronted a balance of power in the Middle East that tilted against it. The region was dominated by a hostile American superpower, a nuclear-armed and militarily superior Israel, and ...
“If you want to defend the South and Western civilization from the Jew and his dark-skinned allies, be at Charlottesville on 12 August.” Nine years ago, that message spread across the internet. The ca...
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The Colorado River at Horseshoe Bend near Page, Ariz., last month.
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You put your toothbrush in your mouth. You store it in your bathroom, near your toilet. If that’s something you’d rather not think about, I understand. In 2015, a grad student at Quinnipiac University...
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U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed last night. Punitive Trump tariffs will now go into effect. Canada will reciprocate with retaliatory tariffs of its own.The story may not be over. Donald Trump is not...
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The bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are gorging on salmon and packing on the pounds ahead of the long winter. With the days growing shorter, it means that the annual Fat Bear Week...
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The national debt reached $40 trillion this week, but the president’s attention seemed directed elsewhere. Last night on Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss Donald Trump’s r...
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In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast.
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Android and iOS have competed against each other since 2008, and have borrowed a lot from each other over that time—so a lot of the differences that did exist between these two operating systems have ...
Kelly Killoren Bensimon is no stranger to a career pivot. In 2009, she joined the cast of the Real Housewives of New York after having worked as a model and jewelry designer. Two years later, she left...
When the news broke that a co-chair of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn townhouse paid for by his father, critics of the DSA had a field day. T...
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Before becoming a regular travel companion of President Trump’s, the nation’s top housing-finance official and the nation’s top intelligence official for one summer, Bill Pulte was a meme-stock celebr...
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NPR's science podcast Short Wave talks about a new type of black hole star, the types of exercise linked to lowered dementia risk, and the wintry adaptations of the long-clawed shrew.
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Scientists used fiber-optic cables to turn “thunderquakes” into underground maps that could help reveal hidden hazards beneath cities.
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Bacteria may build a memory of herbivore attack in the soil and coax new plants to attract wasps to rein in destructive pests.
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A set of carefully etched obsidian arrowheads stick out among other similar artifacts, but archaeologists in central Turkey have still amassed dozens of them over the last 40 years. Following excavati...
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Wearable neck fans, the kind that drape around users’ collarbones and shoot short streams of cooling air upward, have existed for the better part of two decades, but have never really taken off due to...
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Ice cream is one of life’s simplest and most enduring culinary pleasures. The first published recipe, which dates back to the 17th century, combined milk, water, sugar, and candied citron or pumpkin. ...
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Europe’s brutal heatwaves have left the Danube River at historically low water levels. Over the last few weeks alone, residents in Serbia and Hungary discovered World War II artifacts like Nazi motorc...
Aside from some brief written statements, the public has not heard directly from 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell since he fell at his home in Washington, D.C., and was taken away by an ambulance t...
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If there’s one thing young moviegoers seem to fear these days, it’s the idea of the in-between. The term liminal horror has gone from niche internet speak to Hollywood trend, thanks to the acclaimed T...
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The Major Oak at Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, England, in May.
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Solve the crossword from our September 2026 issue, in which we celebrate some creature features.
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A sound wave–based therapy commonly used to dislodge kidney stones is gaining traction as a treatment for erectile dysfunction.
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After a busy baby season, some of the raccoons at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Massachusetts were recently spotted having the time of their lives. The center recently renovated its out...
There are plenty of fitness trackers and workout watches out there to choose from, but none of them have the same credibility that Garmin has earned. This has been a particularly…indulgent summer for ...
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Picture an old-fashioned, idealized American scene. Young kids walk to and from a redbrick public schoolhouse; almost every kid’s commute is less than 10 minutes. On warm weekend days, the children ru...
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Looking for a new car in 2026 can feel like a drag. Physical designs often coalesce into middle-of-the-road conformity, while increasingly complex components and additional tech make the more exciting...
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Picture this: You’re roaming Yellowstone National Park as the ground begins to rumble, pressure builds, and then…KA-BOOM! Goodbye to Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. The last Yellowstone explosion happene...