What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves.

New medicines can cost hundreds of thousands of dolllars a year. Are they worth it? A look at how a pair of pharmaceutical compainies set their prices.

Inside an industrial pig farm.

The economics of climate change and the end of humanity.

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

On the personal genetic sequencing company 23andMe and why their long time term strategy is collecting spit, not cash.

The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.

On the science of being fooled.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.

On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.

How one man helped get Vitamin D into milk, fortified food, and spurred our obsession with supplements.

The Arctic, sailors and scurvy.

Illness, love and jellyfish.

What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.

A profile of Chencho Dorji, Bhutan’s first psychiatrist, who has treated “more than 5,300 depressed, anxious, psychotic and drug-addled” people since 1999.

An update to Into the Wild.

How the Keystone XL became the defining environmental test of Obama’s presidency.

What happens when a pacemaker outlives the brain.

On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.

“When it comes down to it, really, genes don’t make you who you are. Gene expression does. And gene expression varies depending on the life you live.”

In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.

Meet Alan Chambers, former leader of Exodus International–a “pray the gay away” ministry.

“In the computer age, it is not hard to imagine how a computing machine might construct, store and spit out the information that ‘I am alive, I am a person, I have memories, the wind is cold, the grass is green,’ and so on. But how does a brain become aware of those propositions? “

On the slaughter of songbirds migrating across the Mediterranean.

“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”