Ocean Vuong’s new novel, “The Emperor of Gladness” is moving on a number of levels. It has characters you think about when you’re away from them. The writing is exemplary. Vuong has written a big, ...

Against the pure white snow of Antarctica, an Emperor penguin colony appears in a QuickBird satellite image as a half-mile-long stain. At first glance the picture might be an abstract oil painting ...

When it comes to building nests, birds use a wide variety of tactics and materials. Some birds, like the puffin, burrow into ...

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The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own ...

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Penguin poop provides ammonia for cloud formation in coastal Antarctica, potentially helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the region.

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