A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.

Coastal erosion is leading more than a few Britons to watch their homes crumble into the sea.

Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

Lonnie Sue Johnson is an artist who can’t retain a memory for longer than a minute or two.

Can the insights of neuroscience help us get over our prejudices?

Researchers do look into near-death experiences, seeking a verified case of what they call “apparently non-physical veridical perception.”

A brief history of pretending to be sick.

In the deep ocean, a swimming sea-worm called a “green bomber” can throw sacs of light when attacked.

Santería or Vodou are explored as possibilities.

She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.

Locals on the Outer Banks are arguing about whether climate change is real. Meanwhile, their islands are disappearing.

Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.

A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.

The controversial owner of the Dallas World Aquarium once nearly caused a riot over pygmy sloths.

The British and Irish have coined some fabulous terms to describe nature and landscrape. “Doofers” is the Scots’ term for horse-shit; “clinkerbell” means icicle in Hampshire.

Identical twins in Pennsylvania have the same genes, the same upbringing, similar adult lives. And yet one crucial difference may have made one of them sick.

The flawed science that helped convict a Tennessee man of murder.

It isn’t easy to find out the truth about the benefits of male circumcision.

“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

Prospecting for gold is still a live trade in America, if you’re willing to walk deep into the desert with a hand-drawn map.

It’s not just the virus that stands in the way, it’s bureaucratic logistics, and the frightening look of those hazmat suits.

Walter Pitts, who helped develop the “first mechanistic theory of the mind,” was so brilliant he was once been invited to study with Bertrand Russell. He was also homeless.

Trying to make sense our current age of disbelief.