Animals seized from Brazilian jungles by wildlife traffickers, then confiscated by well-meaning officials and animal rights activists, frequently face even more problems than they had before, says a biologist from the University of São Paulo. Continue Reading →
Past Projects
Archive of special reports, series, and reporting projects from 2000 to the present.
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Scientists unmask ‘Ghost Mountains’ of Antarctica at last
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Scientists this week revealed startling new images of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range of Antarctica, a huge and mysterious "ghost range" buried beneath more than a mile of ice. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Featured, News You Might Have Missed, The Sciences, Antarctica, Environment, orography, Technology, World
In rural U.S., a veterinary crisis
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The United States Department of Agriculture is stepping into one of the more perplexing situations facing rural America today: a shortage of large animal veterinarians. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture & Economy, Featured, News You Might Have Missed, Agriculture, animals, Economy, Nation, Public Health
Robots seen as solution to Japan’s aging, shrinking population
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The wedding conductor spoke, her arms moving with slow jerky movements, as her large, egg-shaped, glowing eyes flashed from purple to blue to green and yellow. Strange? Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture & Economy, Featured, News You Might Have Missed, Economy, Japan, Public Health, Science, Technology
Battery breakthrough is at hand
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While the rest of the world was waiting around for that better mousetrap, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a startling breakthrough in battery technology. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Economy, Featured, Education, News You Might Have Missed, Science, Technology
These Hobbits are really, really old
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The small, chinless "Hobbits" of Indonesia, cousins of modern humans also known as Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"), turn out to be older than scientists had previously thought.` Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, World, Environment, News You Might Have Missed, Science
High-speed rail is all the rage: here, there and everywhere
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High-speed rail seems to be top of mind among the world's transportation wonks and policy makers, with action in the U.S., Europe and, most of all, China. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Economy, Environment, Featured, Nation, World, China, Economy, Environment
Engineer paints it blacker than black
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This Purdue University electrical and computer engineering professor is undoubtedly running in the black, due to his creation of a blacker-than-black metamaterial that absorbs virtually all light. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Featured, Nation, News You Might Have Missed, Science, Technology
Official: ‘We have failed the wild tiger’
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The head of an international wildlife organization says it has "failed miserably" to halt the precipitous population decline of tigers in the wild. "How have we let this happen?" Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, World, Conservation, Environment, News You Might Have Missed, wildlife
Shear beams, engineering and the science of the new Bay Bridge
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Putting aside mind-blowing cost overruns, along with delays at a Chinese steel fabrication plant, engineers and scientists are following the equally mind-blowing construction feats in the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Continue Reading →