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The complicated tension of telling the truth at Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival 2022 poster paying tribute to The Truman Show is displayed at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. | John Phillips/Getty Images
How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other
It should be noted that none of these dogs are guilty of plagiarism. | Getty Images Are you “hopping on a trend” or are you
To kill or not to kill: Butterflying during the “insect apocalypse”
Amanda Northrop/Vox Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science? Part of the May 2022 issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that
The blood-hungry parasite that threatens big fish and business in the Great Lakes
The mouth of a sea lamprey. | T. Lawrence/Great Lakes Fishery Commission More than a century after they arrived, invasive sea lampreys still threaten the
Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work
The inside of an IBM System One quantum computer. | Bryan Walsh/Vox Qubits, decoherence, and superposition: a guide to the weird and revolutionary world of
What we know so far about monkeypox
An electron microscopic image depicting a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. | Cynthia S. Goldsmith and
The Supreme Court just condemned a man to die despite strong evidence he’s innocent
The US Supreme Court at dusk in October 2021. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Court effectively overruled two of its previous decisions, and it is
Why Biden’s off-the-cuff comment about defending Taiwan matters
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on May 23. | Evan
An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough
Shell has pledged to reduce its climate emissions to net zero by 2050, yet continues to expand its oil and gas drilling. | Jason Alden/Bloomberg