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What Alzheimer’s Feels Like from the Inside
An investigative reporter chronicles the progression of his own disease.
Is Facebook Luring You Into Being Depressed?
Social media encourages us to follow those we envy.
The Secret, Stressful Stories of Fossils
A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress.
When Destructive Behavior Makes Biological Sense
For people raised in chaos, risk-taking is hardwired.
When Stress Comes with Your Mother’s Milk
Stress hormones in breast milk may help prepare us for a turbulent world.
How Your Embryo Knew What To Do
The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.
The Inside of a Neutron Star Looks Spookily Familiar
Exotic ultra-compressed matter can look like pasta, among other things.
Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial
If our particles have no identity, how can we?
The Man Who Used Facebook to Find an Extinct Human Species
Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way.
Through Fortitude or Stupidity, Lee Berger Is Rewriting Human History
The paleoanthropologist makes no apologies for going his own way.