"I have no desire to open up this man’s skull. I do it because I have to."
Inside a Danish homicide investigation.
Science
The Final Five Percent
When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.
Stickeen: The Story of a Dog
An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.
The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring
Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.
The End of Silence
Why everything is getting louder.
The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community
A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.
How Cities Reshape the Evolutionary Path of Urban Wildlife
If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.
Progressive Prophet Naomi Klein Sees The Future. Can It Be Changed?
A profile.
My Brother's Passing, God, and the Origins of Life
In the normal universe, "to be" is annihilated by "not to be." But for reasons that are still a mystery to even the deepest math of physics, a bit of matter in a billion or so is not obliterated, it has no antimatter partner. It becomes a drop of experience.
'There's No Such Thing As Cold Hard Reality'
Meet the Hyperloop’s truest believers.
The Odds of That
On the nature of coincidence.
The Air Conditioning Trap: How Cold Air Is Heating the World
The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap?
The Golden Bough
In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.
The Rat Spill
A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill—rats.
How the Sausage Is Made
The search for the perfect hot dog—by way of haute cuisine.
What Bullets Do to Bodies
“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”
How to Save a Loggerhead
What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.
Awkward Cause
An academic in Calgary lives an extreme low-carbon lifestyle. But he really doesn’t want to make you feel weird about it.
The Life and Death of an Instafish
What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.
When the River Rises
In a few short hours, a normal evening along Texas’s Blanco River became the site of a deadly flash flood.
Perhaps the Best Dinosaur Fossil Ever Discovered. So Why Has Hardly Anyone Seen It?
A Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat—the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?
California Against the Sea
The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.
The Really Big One
A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.
Sky High
On fireworks, and the “pyros” who practice the art.
Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?
In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.
