Chernobyl Redux
From high-end tourism to one of the world's most ambitious engineering projects, strange things are happening at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history, which could still kill plenty of people
In Focus
A Frantic Search for Hundreds in South Korea
Maritime police search for missing passengers in front of the South Korean ferry "Sewol" which sank at the sea off Jindo April 16, 2014. Almost 300 people were missing after a ferry capsized off South Korea on Wednesday, despite frantic rescue efforts involving coastguard vessels, fishing boats and helicopters, in what could be the country's biggest maritime disaster in over 20 years.
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Periscope
Crimea-stoked fears of Russian aggression rekindle faith in nuclear protection
Prisoner-Turned-Chef Takes on Italian State Over Unpaid Wages
Italy, one of the most indebted countries in Europe, has ignored a court order to pay wages owed to a prison chef
Too Big to Jail
Bankers behind the subprime collapse are lucky Congress and the White House refused to call in the one man who knows how to nail them
The Profitable and the Few
As the number of banks shrivel, who benefits? (spoiler alert: it's not you)
What Lies Beneath
The expansion of the Panama Canal has proved to be a gold mine for paleontologists
Your Drugs Are Talking About You
Smarter, digitized prescriptions will help sick people get well faster and might even keep the rest of us out of sick bay
Science's Amateur Hour
Crowdsourcing has started to affect the course of research, for better or worse
Downtime
The rapid and sometimes ruthless gentrification of San Francisco threatens to kill the neighborhoods that made it The City
Sermon on the Mounted
The annual Taxidermy Contest is like the Miss America Pageant on acid…and a lot of formaldehyde
The Movie Transcendence Takes On Consciousness and the Singularity
The characters in Transcendence are way beyond crushing on their OS: They're having their consciousness uploaded onto the Internet
The Final Final Word
In a fitting subject for his last book, Peter Matthiessen tackled the Holocaust
That Nesting Instinct
The fire alarm system that allows you to monitor potential emergencies remotely without flying home
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