Science

A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

The profile that led to the Massey Energy CEO’s resignation.

A stylized account of the fall of ant colony.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.

America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.

“You can treat a lot of people, and India has,’’ says an epidemiologist working on TB. “But if you have tests that cause misdiagnosis on a massive scale you are going to have a serious problem. And they do.”

The brain of Henry Molaison gave science most of what it knows about memory. Dr. Jacopo Annese believes there’s even more to learn.

In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.

How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.