The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?

How a professional football player became a top-flight mathematician.

An obsessive marine biologist gambles his savings, family, and sanity on a quest to be the first to capture a live giant squid.

On plagues, parasitic mind control, and magical thinking.

A quest for tigers in India.

Put a few termites into a petri dish and they wander around aimlessly; put in forty and they start stampeding around the dish’s perimeter like a herd. But put enough termites together, in the right conditions, and they will build you a cathedral.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

Men have become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation they may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

Birds like Roseate Spoonbills and Burrowing Owls are ending up in the stomachs of hungry pythons and nile monitors. Is it too late to stop them?

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.

How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3 billion industry.

On medical acting and real pain.

The author grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, she returns to investigate.

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

A mysterious wild cat in Sri Lanka may hold a clue.

The symptoms are here: multiyear droughts, large-scale crop failures, a major city—Cape Town—on the verge of going dry, increasing outbreaks of violence, fears of full-scale water wars. The big question: How do we keep the water flowing?

Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?

Hucksters claim that drinking a few drops of hydrogen peroxide diluted in a glass of water will cure almost anything.

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

At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental procedure to get a new one.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.

On the ubiquity of forest fires.

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.

The debate over what really killed the dinosaurs is still raging.