From Norwegian waters to European plates.

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

How the Ebola virus works.

In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes, it actually succeeds.

A family struggles as a 42-year-old husband, father and son becomes increasingly isolated.

The story of a new pancreas.

Severely depressed snow leopards, obsessive-compulsive brown bears, phobic zebras and the inner lives of other captive creatures.

The story of Jim Olson and his Tumor Paint dream.

How greed is sucking Texas dry.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.

On what we see and what we don’t.

How the modern pig farm came to be.

Living without your left arm.

Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?

How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.

The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

An investigation into “Little Albert,” the famous test subject.

“What kind of a person looks upon the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead and lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying ‘Wow!’ says something like ‘Where’s my gun?’”

The legacy of the Scopes trial on one Tennesse town.

Gabrielle Williams is nine years old. She weighs just 12 pounds. The mystery of “syndrome x” and the girls who never age.

Why humans love to watch other creatures.

On America’s combat canines and their handlers.

Exploring the riddle of Morgellons disease: sufferers feel things crawling under their skin and hardly anyone believes them.

How medically induced hypothermia could save lives.