An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.

The mother of a child born with a deformed brain responds, heartbreakingly, to an academic study claiming that people are happier without kids.

When one of the best young chemists in the world took his own life, Harvard was forced to reconsider the relationship between PhD students and their (often Nobel Prize-winning) advisers.

An emerging school of therapy says that scripting your dreams while awake could eliminate the worst ones. Not everyone thinks that’s healthy.

Vignettes of the residents of South Elliot Place.

Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?

In 1937, Harvard researchers began following the lives of 268 students. Year after year, the men were interviewed and given medical and psychological exams. The goal? Find a formula for happiness.

Is there really such a thing as brain death?

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.

In the 1950s, L.S.D. became a Beverly Hills’ therapy fad, and it profoundly changed idols like Cary Grant.

In the early ’80s, underground chemists cooked up synthetic versions of heroin that took over the market in California—and left young users with symptoms typically associated with Parkinson’s.