What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?

Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.

Millions of hearts fail each year. Why can’t we replace them?

A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

“Around here the land swallows things.”

On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.

Apex predators, feeding on pests and pets, teem in suburban Dallas and other American cities.

During a decade when Cascadia’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations.

After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.

Our climate models could be missing something big.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.

Inside a Michelin-starred chef’s revolutionary quest to harvest rice from the sea.

Thirty years after it was first pioneered, the Brain Fingerprinting system is finally being put to the test.

What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.

A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.

Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair.

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.