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.

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.

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.

We now know that most mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by the same thing. What we don’t know is when it will happen next.

How animals see.

As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.

On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.

The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.

An elite group of forensic scientists, charged with finding hidden human remains, nears retirement age.

A child genius living in poverty, her mother, and the benefactor who became their tormenter.

Inside the empire of Botox.

Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.

Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.

The life and times of Nora.

On the new art of interrogation.

T La Rock was one of the pioneers of hip-hop. But after an attack put him in a nursing home, he had to fight to recover his identity, starting with the fact that he’d ever been a rapper at all.

Not long ago the idea of repairing the brain’s wiring to fight addiction would have seemed far-fetched. But advances in neuroscience have upended conventional notions about addiction—what it is, what can trigger it, and why quitting is so tough.

An oral history of Hurricane Harvey.

For decades, “abnormal” embryos were thrown away during the IVF process. Then some pioneering doctors — and patients — decided to use them anyway.

On the fallibility of memory.