Born at a barely viable 24 weeks, Owen’s life began as a battle for survival. His future is a test for how far neonatal medicine has come.

After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.

It’s a made-up label.

An essay about the weeks after the author’s brother nearly died.

On the nature of coincidence.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

The life story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow truck operators who raised him like a human child before it all ended in tragedy.

The inside story of how an Ivy League food scientist turned shoddy data into viral studies.

The idealistic entrepreneur turns wild experiences into viral videos into actual science into a going business concern.

How the disappearing bayou town of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana is trying to delay its inevitable end.

“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”

Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.

Franklin Chang Díaz immigrated to the U.S. at 18, became an astronaut, tied the record for most spaceflights, and now might hold the key to deep space travel.

Fishing gear can pose a deadly threat to whales—and to those who try to save them.

Humanity has 30 years to find out.

First came seizures. Then he began forgetting words. By age four he could barely walk. The story of the race to save a child from a genetic death sentence.

The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.

On the centuries-long search for the perfect hangover remedy.

Hurricane Maria was a natural catastrophe. The aftermath is a man-made disaster.

The billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies turns to science.

Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:

The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.