The Brazen Way a Chinese Company Pumped Fentanyl Ingredients Into the U.S.
Yuancheng used an army of young, perky salespeople to peddle illegal chemicals to Americans.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters A Simple Invention Could Change How Fast Disease Is Detected
Octopi is designed to rapidly detect malaria in poor settings—but its true potential is even greater.
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Bob Wands / AP The Quick Therapy That Actually Works
Just a few hours of therapy-like interventions can reduce some people’s anxiety.
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Matthew Mead / AP The Devastating Truth About National Avocado Day
Why millions of people are extremely eager to celebrate fake holidays sponsored by corporations
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP The Fishy Science of Omega-3s
Twenty thousand papers later, researchers are still debating whether the fatty acid is all it’s cracked up to be.
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Nathan Mead / Getty Putting Kids on Diets Won’t Solve Anything
Weight Watchers has a new app for children as young as 8. It might be better for the company than it is for pediatric health.
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Hannah Whitaker The Quickening
A story of two births
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Science Photo Library A Tissue Sample From 1966 Held Traces of Early HIV
To understand the virus’s history, a team worked to reconstruct its genome from a time before anyone knew the virus existed.
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Jan Havicksz Steen / Fine Art Images / ... Why Some Doctors Purposely Misdiagnose Patients
Hundreds of people say a Michigan doctor falsely diagnosed them with epilepsy. He wouldn’t be the first to lie to patients about how sick they are.
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Paul Taylor / Getty America Has Never Been So Desperate for Tomato Season
A mundane joy in a season fraught with despair
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Ricky Kresslein / Getty Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts
But new insights are at last accumulating.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Life of a Person Who Wakes Up Really, Really Early
“Extreme larks” get up naturally when some people have hardly gone to bed.
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Peter Andrews / Reuters A Promising Resource for Cancer Breakthroughs Is Dying Out
As humans drive vulnerable mammals closer to extinction, valuable mutations hidden in their DNA could be bred out of existence.
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James Leynse / Corbis / Getty Always Have Three Beverages
The correct number of drinks to keep at your desk
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Hypocrisy of SoulCycle
When gyms sell themselves as a sense of identity, eventually they have to define what they stand for.
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NBC / Alamy / The Atlantic When Is a Caption Close Enough?
YouTube’s notoriously nonsensical auto-captions are improving. But there’s a deeper problem.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Best Probiotics
An apple contains about 100 million bacteria—a more diverse range than any dietary supplement.
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P. Ravikumar / Reuters Why a 7-Year-Old Had 547 Teeth
Sometimes stem cells in the jaw don’t work quite like they’re supposed to.
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Celia Talbot Tobin / The New York Times ... Why Many Mass Shooters Are ‘Loners’
Social rejection can fuel violence, but only if the perpetrator has access to a deadly weapon.
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Eric Gay / AP The Rank Hypocrisy of Trump’s Ebola Tweets
Five years ago, the doctor Kent Brantly was evacuated back to the U.S. after being infected with Ebola—against the wishes of the man who is now president.
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Edgar Su / Reuters The Fundamental Link Between Body Weight and the Immune System
Inflammation plays a critical role in determining how we digest food, and it’s only now starting to reveal itself.
