August 2025 Issue

Animals

Can CSI tactics stop a $23 billion poaching industry?

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal smugglers—one gorilla handprint at a time.

Photography

The race to save the first color photos

The revolutionary invention of autochromes changed photography. As those pictures decay, they're revealing a new kind of beauty.

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A last glimpse inside the world’s vanishing cave societies

The most expensive mistake in ancient Roman history

How to dig up 55 tons of dinosaur bones from the world’s fiercest desert

The hunt for the world’s rarest duck

My night with the guerrilla balloonists of South Korea

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