On the uneasy relationship between magic and medicine.

On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.

“Transforming into an Administrative Jekyll for a certain amount of time every day limits the amount of time my Creative Hyde can come up with content to market and sell. Luckily, amphetamines have that problem tackled as well: when you’re using them, you don’t have to sleep… at all.”

A radical new treatment for auditory hallucinations.

Just days after suffering a concussion, a 17-year-old fullback hangs himself. Inside his family’s journey to learn if a brain injury is to blame.

The 1920s experiment to reverse-engineer wild cows.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.

A personal reflection on bird-watching and relationships.

When an autistic child goes missing.

On caring for a bipolar parent amidst a broken mental health care system.

Inside the increasingly hostile global warming debate.

Meet Dr. Schnoz, the nose-sculpting YouTube king of Miami.

The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.

How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.

How we try - and usually fail - to fight the mosquito.

A history of the fowl.

The author on his mother’s deteriorating health and the “price of longevity.”

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

Ina May Gaskin and the battle for at-home births.

“What are you doing here?” Loggins asked Janette. Janette thought this an odd question. “It’s Bike to Work Day,” she said. “Did you ride your bike to school?”“Bicycling isn’t allowed at Maple Avenue School,” said Loggins. Janette did a double take. “You’re kidding me,” she said. “Right?”

The story of Nicole Davis, a 25-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer six months into her pregnancy.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.