A profile of the man behind the “7 Habits.”

For days I've been slogging through a rain-soaked jungle in Indonesian New Guinea, on a quest to visit members of the Korowai tribe, among the last people on earth to practice cannibalism.

“Over the past century, coaches have used intuition and discipline to vastly improve athletic performance. Now scientists are taking the last step, helping athletes approach perfection.”

Inside the increasingly hostile global warming debate.

The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.

How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.

Perpetually reinvented through experimental chemistry, manufactured in Asian mills, packaged in foil with names like White Slut Concentrated and Charley Sheene for use as “hookah cleaner,” distributed in college town head shops, snorted and injected by hardened addicts and high school thrill seekers alike, bath salts may be the strangest and most volatile American drug craze since crack. And they’re (quasi) legal.

Teaching Ted Kaczynski’s anti-technology ideas.

On the rise of DIY genetic engineering.

How we try - and usually fail - to fight the mosquito.

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.

Is creativity in our genes? A self-made scholar’s search for the answer.

On geoengineering, a high risk/high reward fix for global warming.

Competing teams, some powered by billionaires and some by open-sourced code and volunteers, race to land a robot on the surface and claim a massive prize from Google.

A sociobiologist on how we evolved into artists.

On spending six months on the southern coast of Argentina with the “Jane Goodall of penguins” and several hundred of her research subjects.

Controversy over the alleged gold standard of forensic evidence.

On the possibility of “fluid intelligence.”

On the Texas-sized trash island floating in the Pacific.

A father and his daughter’s brain tumor.

How the CIA, under a program called MK-ULTRA, used a San Francisco apartment to dose johns with LSD.

An investigation into Erin Brockovich and the lawsuits that made her famous.

At a nursing home, a middle-aged woman deals with her scientifically modified body and memories of her past.

"For the past few months, nanobots have been rebuilding Elise’s degenerative neural structures, refortifying the cell production of her microglia in an experimental medical procedure. Now she sits in the Memory Lane Neurotherapy lounge, strapped into a magnetoencephalographic (MEG) scanner that looks like a 1950s beauty parlor hair-drying unit. As a young female therapist monitors a glowing map of Elise’s brain, a male spits streams of nonsense at her."

The impact, both on researchers and patients, of a radical treatment.