The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

The story behind a wad of cotton and a bit of string.

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

On the failing institution of the teaching hospital.

From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.

One man’s quest to witness the “Bison Cull” in Yellowstone National Park.

The process of decomposition, recounted in painstaking detail.

A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

A plague leads sea stars to tear off their own arms.

The informal network of volunteers that keep abortion access open in Texas.

On the Aran islands of Ireland.

On our relationship with wild horses.

The death of one Nevada man in a chaotic, unregulated, and expensive industry.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

How the overdiagnosis of disease makes for unnecessary treatment, high anxiety, and ballooning costs.

Following a storm that took 72 lives in Alabama.

We are disgusted by butchery, even as we eat more meat than ever.

The question for researchers isn’t “How smart are dolphins?” It’s “How are dolphins smart?”

Kate Matrosova was a classic overachiever and, at 32, had everything to live for. Still she set out alone into the mountains of New Hampshire—and a deadly storm.

The writer’s obsession with a genus of snake known as “indigo.”

Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

The allure of invisibility.

On the rapid disintegration of the ecosystem in Las Vegas.