Bangalore was once the icon of a globalized, high tech, utopian future. Now it’s a sign of global catastrophe.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”

An essay about what we’ll lose, and what we’ve already lost.

Imagine you felt like your skin was always on fire. Imagine you couldn’t even feel a bone break. The genetic link between those two extremes could hold the key to ending physical suffering.

A look back at the spill that launched a movement.

Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel. Which means it’s incredibly valuable. Which means biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 crabs a year. Nobody knows quite what that means for the crabs.

Traditions, feuds, and controversies in British pest control.

South Florida is being overrun with cane toads, which can weigh almost six pounds. No one knows why they are swelling in numbers or when their population growth will slow.

For insect detectives, the trickiest cases involve the bugs that aren’t really there.

The inner lives of other species.

“It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch—if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club—you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else.”

He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.

On the underground doctors unleashing the healing powers of hallucinogens.

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

The psychology behind our limitations of reason.

The DIY explorers who dream of a 35-million-mile trek.

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

On light pollution and a place called Gerlach.

A war on wolves in Utah.

Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.

On the centuries-long search for the perfect hangover remedy.

A team of researchers has a controversial plan to root fake data out of science.

Astronomy, history, and spirituality collide at the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea.