Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

The pandemic comes to Star City, the secretive home of Russia’s space program.

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Christiaan Huygens’ early work on probability paved the way for his very modern evaluation of what alien life might look like.

A trip to one of America’s quietest places and the guy who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

How the waters off of LA became a DDT dumping ground.

The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.

“Uncertainty, it has been shown, is more painful than certain physical pain.”

In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.

Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?

Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?

Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.

How UFO culture took over America.

What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?

Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.

Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.

Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery.

At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.

To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.