The Itch Nobody Can Scratch

A new disease is plaguing thousands, but experts are in conflict over its…

Why Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is A State Of Matter, Like a Solid, A Liquid Or A Gas

The Drug Revolution That No One Can Stop

Designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy—it can be…

Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

Tutankhamun’s Blood

Why everyone from the Mormons to the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for a piece…

The Man Who Destroyed America’s Ego

How a rebel psychologist challenged one of the 20th century’s…

How big is the human genome?

In megabytes, not base pairs.

The Silencing of the Deaf

How high-tech implants are being blamed for killing an entire subculture.

This Is What It’s Like To Be At War With Your Body

The compulsion to be free of a limb is no imaginary…

22 Messages of Hope (and Science) for Creationists

No snark, no sarcasm, no judgement, just the…