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Four-year-old Vasiliki Vourgou and her teacher Maria Kokkinopliti in their kindergarten class in the village of Thanos on the Greek island of Lemnos on Sept. 29,…

In 2015, I found myself advising Poland’s president on the nation’s demographic woes: the country’s fertility rate had stalled at 1.3 children per woman, among the…

Imagine a movement arising in this country that seeks to overthrow established power. Imagine that it begins with a series of rebellions, in Scotland and south…

September 7, 20253 min readThese Ants Are Different Species but Share a MotherAnt queens of one species are sexual parasites that clone ants of another species…

On Wednesday evening, Jacksonville Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter and his wife, Leanna De La Fuente, revealed the arrival of their newborn son with a vlog on…

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.When it comes to birth control, men have exactly two reliable options: condoms or a vasectomy. That’s…

August 12, 20252 min readCosmic Tornado from Star’s Birth Whirls in Dazzling JWST ImageThis telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and…

There are few better metaphors for the receding status of American women than one offered up by the Trump administration at a medical waste disposal facility…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.Early in the Civil War, Oliver Wendell…