Unintelligent Design
A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth
by Charles Siebert, Photography by Jörg Brockmann
Pluto Explored
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sets off to explore distant Pluto, the tiny world that challenges everything we know about the solar system.
Toxic Inheritance
Frederica Perera, DNA-damage detective, suspects that if a mother breathes in pollution, her child may develop cancer.
Antsy in Madagascar
A bushwhacking biologist unearths six-legged vampires, cannibals, and silk weavers in his quest to bring every ant on the planet into your home.
Knit Theory
Hyperbolic space is an unimaginable concept, unless you're a Latvian mathematician who's handy with needle and yarn.