Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution.

How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.

Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism, decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. Then he broke that rule.

“If the pandemic so terrified us that billions of us retreated into panicked cocoons for months, what can explain or justify our blindness and indifference towards the ten million lives ended each year by the repeated inhalation of smog?”

Can suicide be predicted?

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.

Three years after a devastating wildfire, a California community faces another crisis: PTSD. Is what’s happening there a warning to the rest of us?

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

Inside the quest to prolong athletic mortality.

Amidst a historic shortage at sperm banks nationwide, a new means of donation is on the rise: Facebook groups. Elaine Byrd got involved in the community first as a moderator, then as a recipient. That’s how she met Ari Nagel, aka the Sperminator, a superdonor with nearly a hundred biological children and counting.

The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

He became a guru in the self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?

On this ward at Morton Plant Hospital, nurses are overwhelmed by the number of new, desperate cases.

But the more that I tried to remind myself of the various ways in which I did, in fact, seem to have a body that was moving, with a heart that pumped blood, the more agitated I became. Being dead butted up against the so-called evidence of being alive, and so I grew to avoid that evidence because proof was not a comfort; instead, it pointed to my insanity.

Many long-haulers feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.

A journey of recovery through electroconvulsive therapy.

Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.

“With mood disorders on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.”

How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.