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Animals in Danger

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Enrique Salmón Explains the Threat of Biodiversity Loss
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What is So Unique About the Axolotl?
A pangolin walks through grass with a blue circle around it and the word "endangered" written in white across the image.
Meet the Endangered Pangolin
Gloved hand holds a vial with penguin feces; two Magellanic penguins look on from the right, with emphasis marks on the sample.
How Penguin Poop Can Lead to Conservation
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How Can We Help Protect Monarch Butterflies?

History Mysteries

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Did Rye Bread Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
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What Happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette.
Did Marie-Antoinette Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
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Was Santa Claus a Real Person?
Exterior image of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
What's Inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu?

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A colorful world map shows swirling clouds of aerosols in green, purple, and red, with arrows pointing to different regions and a note reading "What are aerosols?" in large text.
How Invisible Aerosols Connect in Earth's Atmosphere
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What Are the Epstein Files—And What's In Them?
A young adult wearing overalls and a baseball hat in nature. A paper cutout with images of berries, nuts, and
What We Can Learn (and Eat) Urban Foraging
Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.
Meet America's First IVF Baby
Blurred image of a dinner table overlaid with text: "Hamotzi: The Hebrew blessing over bread before a meal."
Shabbat Prayers: What is the Blessing Over Bread?
Blurred image background overlaid with text: "Kiddush: The Hebrew blessing over wine recited during Shabbat."
Shabbat Prayers: What is the Blessing Over Wine?
Blurred image of candles overlaid with text: "Blessing Over Candles: The Hebrew prayers recited upon lighting candles during Shabbat."
Shabbat Prayers: What is the Blessing Over Candles?
Open book with Regency-era illustration of Jane Austen holding a book; large script “J. Austen” across; background of handwritten text.
Everything We Know and Love About Jane Austen
Engraved bust of Homer, a bearded man in a conical cap, overlaid on a painting of a galley with rowers and winged figures.
Telling the Story of Homer's Odyssey with Translator Emily Wilson
Stone with Egyptian hieroglyphs and a pottery shard with Greek script, linked by a blue arrow; faint pyramids in the background.
Why Ancient Egyptian Writing Is More Than Just Hieroglyphics
Black-and-white photo of a suited man with glasses on a balcony; overlaid text reads “Who was Jean‑Paul Sartre?” with a hazy cityscape in the background.
Nausea, Nothingness, and Existentialism: Meet Jean-Paul Sartre
Two black-and-white portraits of a mustached man flank handwritten notes; overlay text reads “Who was Friedrich Nietzsche?”
Answering Your Questions About Friedrich Nietzsche

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