On the renaissance in psychedelic research.

A new era in the search for life on Mars.

Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

On the new science of collective behavior.

New research upends ideas about culture’s impact on how our brains our wired.

On a little-known statistic that tracks the movement of America’s population by searching for its balance point.

Born with spina bifida, Noor al-Zahra Haider entered the media spotlight in 2005 after U.S. troops arranged her life-saving surgery in America. This is what happened when she returned to Iraq.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.

The story of Lilly Grossman’s genome.

How mergers between Catholic institutions and secular hospitals are changing the nature of health care.

The people behind the search for the “God particle.”

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

The science of sleeplessness.

The science of acquired savant syndrome.

How humans evolve in the modern world.

The man behind the Body Worlds exhibit faces his own death.

On meterologic obsession, making weather, and very powerful storms.

Visiting a lost friend.

Why psychologists love “priming.”