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The Tree That Outlived the Dinosaurs Walk through any East Asian temple courtyard in late autumn and you might find yourself standing on a carpet of gold. The Ginkgo biloba—or maidenhair tree, as some call it—has been dropping its fan-shaped leaves for roughly 290 million years, making it the sole survivor of an entire order that watched the dinosaurs come and go. Fossils of the genus stretch back to the…
Thirty-Nine Seconds That Changed Everything It was a Wednesday afternoon in Venezuela, the 24th of June—a national holiday, the Battle of Carabobo, when families gather instead of commuting to offices. At 18:04 VET, the ground beneath northwestern Venezuela began to move. An Mw 7.2 earthquake tore through the San Sebastián fault system, its epicenter near the quiet town of San Felipe, Yaracuy. Before anyone could comprehend what had happened, thirty-nine…
