Longform Best of 2014

We recommended 1,642 articles this year, from 1,364 writers and 417 publishers. Collectively, they were read over 10 million times.

These are our favorites.

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Science

The postscript to a miracle.

When a child has a condition that’s new to science.

What it’s like to be struck by lightning.

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

Elon Musk’s dreams of colonizing Mars.