Oh, your first wife died in a freak accident too?

Is it the black mold causing your headaches, or is it all in your head? Don’t turn to science. It has no answers.

It’s a field as small as the people it operates on, and for many parents, it’s the only hope their children have.

Physiognomy is a discarded 19th-century pseudoscience. Why can’t we stop practicing it?

Oh, did you think we didn’t realize that we’re fat? We’re all set, thanks, because the world never lets us forget it.

New books about the opioid crisis — “Dopesick,” “Fight for Space” and “American Fix” — have different ideas about who’s to blame and what to do next. Our critic says regulating supply can have deadly consequences, and we need to address users’ pain.

Cisco, Utah can’t be a ghost town, because Eileen Muza lives there, but people sure treat it that way.

Elon Musk can’t wait to send humans to the Moon and Mars. But before we land ourselves on other worlds, we need to remember how we’ve treated our own.

In the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, a seasoned fire lookout watches as his beloved forest and his personal life burn, and he tries to imagine what will arise from their ashes.

Sometimes it takes a touch of darkness to create something alluring.

Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.

When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.

Growth advocates in St. George, Utah want a billion-dollar pipeline to support a rising population. Conservationists don’t.

If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”

A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.

“Plastics.”

Scientists knew how serious climate change is. Politicians knew. Energy companies knew. The U.S. was ready to act, and then we… didn’t.

A clone is not a clone, it’s a twin born at a different time — one that is only ever about 85 percent the same as the original.

Maybe pooping into porcelain bowls of potable water wasn’t the best idea we ever had.

Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.

The San Francisco police officers stationed on the Hunters Point Superfund site worked atop the literal and figurative fallout of the US Military’s WWII-era atomic testing.

Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?

After large corporate farmers started growing nuts in one southeastern Arizona, local residents’ wells started going dry. The situation is only getting worse.

The history of the chili pepper is entwined with the history of Chinese Communism and the fiery temperament of the Sichuanese people, but why?

One of the best ways to protect the world’s oldest, largest trees is to conceal their location.

Narcotics Anonymous programs offer community support — but turns away people who are using medication to aid their recovery.

Steve Curry’s meteor-hunting hobby went from business to obsession to a connection with Cliven Bundy, and eventually landed him in jail after an armed standoff with law enforcement.

Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.

By advocating for agriculture in the arid West, Major John Wesley Powell challenged the way America viewed its right to develop the continent.

If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?