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Flooding

South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement Due to Climate Change

Jacob Levi and Liz Stephens

Public Health

An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic

Cedric Dark

Bad Look

AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

Sachi Mulkey

Public Health

The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn

Emily Mullin

Look Up

How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3

Jorge Garay

OceanGate

The Coast Guard’s OceanGate Hearings Start Next Week—but Key Witnesses Won’t Appear

Mark Harris

Prime Suspect

Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up

Molly Taft

Extra Charges

The Cost of Lightning

Chris Baraniuk

Superfood

Breadfruit Is Here to Save the World

Richard Schiffman

High Wire

Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Culture Shock

Crispr-Enhanced Viruses Are Being Deployed Against UTIs

Emily Mullin

Warp Speed

Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves

Katy Clough, Sebastian Khan, and Tim Dietrich

Secrets of the Universe

The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger

Liz Kruesi

Infectious disease

Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza

Lee Sherry

Infectious Disease

The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures Rise

Zoya Teirstein

homeward bound

Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

Urban Jungle

What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

Ricardo Hernández

Extreme Weather

Why Super Typhoons Like Yagi Are More Common Than You’d Think

Dennis Mersereau

Space

Moon GPS Is Coming

Becky Ferreira

Cold Storage

Ski Resorts Are Stockpiling Snow to Get Through Warm Winters

Chris Baraniuk