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A cluster of male athletes racing on a track.

Don’t be surprised if extreme heat makes breaking Olympic records impossible

Rising heat takes a toll on athletes’ physiology and makes sports more dangerous.

Nine cicadas resting on a leafy bush.

In cicada emergence, a piggybacking parasite steals the show

Photo of a snail creeping across pavement.

This nature-inspired robot moves at a snail’s pace

The contraption uses water to act as lubricant and glue, just like snail mucus.

An activist with a picket and sign about the plastic pollution crisis

Plastics production alone will doom climate goals

Manufacturing plastics is a highly emissive process. The world needs to shrink production rapidly to stay within the 1.5 °C global temperature rise.

A few more thoughts on climate and borders

A few more thoughts on climate and borders

The Sequencer team chimes in

The insides of a prison cell, with a single a barred window

The public health crisis brewing behind bars

Incarceration leaves long-term impacts on an inmate's health. The staggering rates of incarceration transform those consequences into an epidemic.

Solar eclipse watchers sitting in chairs on a rocky shore next to a lighthouse

The solar eclipse, as seen by Sequencer readers

Earlier this week we asked our readers to share with us their photos of Monday's solar eclipse. What each person saw during the eclipse – in their backyard, in the park, several time zones away from home squatting in a cemetery – was shaped by our lives, as all art,

The streaming corona of the sun is visible during a total eclipse.

Why I’m a three-time eclipse chaser

Meditations on eclipse hunting, humanity, and the passage of time.

A high-perch view of the Belo Monte dam that stretches across the Xingu River in Brazil.

Hydropower isn’t as green as you think

Brazil, the main stronghold nation of the Amazon rainforest, is embarking on a dam-building spree that ignores concerns the world has seen many times over.

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