It’s one of our most in-demand natural resources, and it’s running out.

The next big thing in the death business.

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.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

An investigation into how the American military disposes of its waste.

The author on her reverence for water.

Science predicts only the predictable, ignoring most of our chaotic universe.

On fireworks, and the “pyros” who practice the art.

In February 2010, a killer whale named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity. This is his story.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

Inside the economics of scientific publishing, an industry that’s somehow nearly as profitable as film and has changed the course of science in the process.

In 1937, Harvard researchers began following the lives of 268 students. Year after year, the men were interviewed and given medical and psychological exams. The goal? Find a formula for happiness.

How moonlight drives life in the ocean.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.

The life and work of a Manhattan psychoanalyst.

A hunt for maple poachers in Western Washington.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

For 60 years, American drivers unknowingly poisoned themselves by pumping leaded gasoline into their tanks. Clair Patterson—a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth—took on a billion-dollar industry to save humanity from itself.

”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”

Bangalore was once the icon of a globalized, high tech, utopian future. Now it’s a sign of global catastrophe.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

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

An essay about what we’ll lose, and what we’ve already lost.

Imagine you felt like your skin was always on fire. Imagine you couldn’t even feel a bone break. The genetic link between those two extremes could hold the key to ending physical suffering.