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Five Things Peter Shire Wishes He’d Made

The Los Angeles-based artist and designer admires the Vespa and an early 20th-century typeface.

The Couples Who Spent Valentine’s Day at Ikea. On Purpose.

The furniture giant’s Brooklyn outpost advertised a “romantic evening” in its cafeteria. Some found “love among the Swedish meatballs.”

Odysseus, a Private Lunar Lander, Launches Toward the Moon

A SpaceX rocket lifted the spacecraft, which was built by Intuitive Machines of Houston to carry cargo for NASA and…

Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia

About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as…

Self-Love Is Important, but We Mammals Are Stuck With Sex

If Galentine’s Day had an animal mascot, it would have to be one of the species whose females can reproduce…

An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?

Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found.

A Mushroom Grew in a Strange Place: The Side of a Frog

Maybe frog and fungi are friends.

The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking

The Bomb and I go way back. In Seattle, where I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, it was…

Fragments of Asteroid With Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin

Astronomers tracked the entry of a small space rock into Earth’s atmosphere, and then meteorite hunters made an unexpected discovery.

Why Wellness Culture Has Cozied Up to Leeches

The bloodsucking worms might conjure an era of vampiric pseudoscience, but their powerful jaws are inspiring new applications.

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