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RURRENABAQUE, Bolivia—The day the fire came, Dario Mamio Serato remembers that he could not breathe. The Amazon rainforest, known as the lungs of the Earth, was an inferno. Acrid smoke engulfed Mamio ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

The other day, I was talking to a guy with a physics background. He said that he is very fond of the field of psychology, but expressed concern about the fact that, unlike physics, it is “a soft ...

Last fall, Everett, Washington, became the first city in the Western United States to pass a ballot measure recognizing the rights of a river’s watershed — that of the Snohomish River, which curves ...

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