Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.

Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organized their societies—and hint at possibilities for our own,

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.

Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated any.

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

Fossils have become a hot new asset class. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.

Meditations on the myth of the voiceless.

The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

“There is no hierarchy in the web of life.”

About 100 miles from Galveston, Flower Garden Banks is home to some of the healthiest coral communities in the world. Some unlikely allies came together to help expand protections, but will it be enough?

Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.

The quest to create a cheap, durable, clean stove for the masses.

Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

The industry that fights bed bugs is growing, but the only real winners are the pests themselves.

Smell is often dismissed as the least important sense. But it’s the funk that draws us together.

Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.