Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis?

Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.

Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.

“If the pandemic so terrified us that billions of us retreated into panicked cocoons for months, what can explain or justify our blindness and indifference towards the ten million lives ended each year by the repeated inhalation of smog?”

A hundred years ago, in the midst of an American food crisis, two spies who had once sworn to kill each other came together with a plan to feed America: hippo meat.

How your family tree could catch a killer.

Inside an international smuggling operation.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.

Three years after a devastating wildfire, a California community faces another crisis: PTSD. Is what’s happening there a warning to the rest of us?

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organized their societies—and hint at possibilities for our own,

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.

Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated any.

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

Fossils have become a hot new asset class. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.

Meditations on the myth of the voiceless.