Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be.

The genetics of schizophrenia.

A mother’s quest to find a diagnosis for her daughter’s mysterious condition.

How a burst blood vessel transformed the mind of a deliberate, controlled chiropractor into that of an utterly unfiltered, massively prolific artist.

How one man wants to transport the world’s heaviest cargo in airships that are lighter than air.

Exploring the blurred line between biology and sentiment.

On the night sky’s understated importance in biological functions below.

Can we be convinced that healthy food is delicious? On the new science of neurogastronomy and why we eat what we eat.

Training for a Mars mission on a Hawaiian volcano

The inside story of how scientists finally proved that gravitational waves exist.

The hedge fund manager making a bet that Wall Street can solve the water crisis in the West.

On the profound power of the placebo.

Last August, contaminated water escaped from an abandoned mine in Colorado and traveled down the Animas River to Shiprock, the second-largest city in the Navajo Nation. Two weeks later, the EPA declared the sludge-filled river safe.

The surprising bond between damaged birds and traumatized veterans.

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

Six months after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a member of the Presidential commission that investigated the crash presents his personal findings.

Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.

How a father and son solved the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise.

A week on the campaign trail in the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus with Zoltan Istvan, the presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.

How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

Rob Billot spent eight years defending corporate clients in environmental cases. Then Wilbur Tennant called.

“It’s just beyond our experience—we have nothing in our evolutionary history that prepares us or primes us, no intellectual architecture, to try and grasp the remoteness of those odds.”

On realizing you’re going to die.

A visit to Albania to watch Henry Marsh perform his pioneering surgery where the patient is kept awake during the removal of a tumor and the “brain is stimulated with an electric probe, so that the surgeon can see if and how the patient reacts.”

She was a young plutonium worker whose Honda Civic Hatchback ran off the road and smashed into the wall of a concrete culvert. In her trunk were manila folders full of documents, which immediately went missing.

Checking up on an ambitious, controversial conservation initiative, 20 years later.