“You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.” A profile of a meteorologist who has worked Tornado Alley for more than 40 years.

The fight to save a “delicious gold mine.”

On the scientific research of Romanian orphans.

Inside the women’s ward at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.

The long road to a potential breakthrough.

Why some innovations spread quick while others take decades to catch hold.

On paleopathologist Gino Fornaciari and his investigations into murders from centuries past.

Reporting on drug-resistant tuberculosis across Papua New Guinea – and then contracting the disease.

How a bioethicist’s field of study—suicide, euthanasia, a dignified death—”turned unbearably personal.”

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.

On disposing of a dead sea lion, and the pitfalls of memory.

The weird history and uncertain future of New York City’s shoreline.

A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.

What good can come of tragedy.

The controversial history of WI-38, a cell strain created from an aborted fetus “that has arguably helped to save more lives than any other created by researchers.”

Research into mind-altering drugs is back.

The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.

How the city will drown.

Most of what you know about women’s fertility rates is wrong.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

Among the Sasquatch-searchers.

Inside an animal-lover civil war.

What the bountiful sex lives of bonobos—they enjoy deep kissing, oral sex, dry humping, and polyamory—can teach us about humanity.