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  1. Life

    We all have a (very tiny) glow of light, no movie magic needed

    Normal cellular processes in living things — from germinating plants to our own cells — create biophotons, though escaping light isn’t visible to us.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  2. Animals

    The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn’t made by a rat

    Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

    By Amanda Heidt
  3. Environment

    How a Yurok family played a key role in the world’s largest dam removal project 

    In The Water Remembers, Amy Bowers Cordalis shares her family’s account of the Indigenous-led fight to restore the Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest.