Science

On the media’s failure to cover climate change.

An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company.

On the biology of animal emotion.

Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.

An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.

How OxyContin permeated one small town.

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”

How social psychologist Diederik Stapel committed and rationalized an audacious academic fraud, and what his lies reveal about the culture of scientific research.

Marketing research,the pre-Facebook history of ‘likeability,’ and why there will never be a ‘dislike’ button.

Why awareness isn’t saving lives.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.