Inherited Trauma Shapes Your Health
A new study on Civil War prisoners adds to the evidence suggesting that our parents’—and even grandparents’—experiences might affect our DNA.
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Senjuti Saha A Simpler Way to Get to the Bottom of Mysterious Illnesses in Poor Countries
Backed by major funders, a group of scientists has created a platform to help the world’s disease detectives. Will it work?
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters Neanderthals Suffered a Lot of Traumatic Injuries. So How Did They Live So Long?
Our ancient-hominid relatives seem to have had surprisingly sophisticated health care.
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Grant Ellis The High Stakes of Surfing’s Wave-Pool Arms Race
With the Olympics ahead, artificial-wave makers appear to be one-upping one another in their attempt to bring surfing to the world.
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Mike_shots / Shutterstock Sperm Counts Continue to Fall
Scientists are coming to a consensus that men in America and Europe are experiencing a worsening decrease in fertility. They disagree, however, about why.
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Phillip DeFranco / YouTube YouTube Stars Are Being Accused of Profiting Off Fans’ Depression
Viewers are outraged that some of the site’s biggest celebrities have partnered with a controversial online counseling service.
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Marcos Brindicci / Reuters When Abortion Is Illegal, Women Rarely Die. But They Still Suffer.
A look at what happens when abortion is forbidden, from countries where it still is
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Raquel Lonas / Getty Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names
Everyone’s social nightmare might have lasting effects on relationships.
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The Amateur Sleuth Who Hunts Down the Missing
An American Indian woman has devoted her life to investigating some of the country’s many missing-persons cases involving indigenous women.
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Sophia Myszkowski / The Atlantic On the Trail of Missing American Indian Women
Lissa Yellowbird-Chase, an amateur sleuth, believes that every human being deserves to be searched for.
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AFP / Getty Images Everyday Discrimination Literally Raises Women’s Blood Pressure
A new study adds to the evidence that routine moments of “disdain, distance, and disrespect” have health consequences.
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Eric Risberg / AP A Plan to Keep Dying Patients' Drugs From Fueling Addiction
The opioids bill that passed Congress includes a measure to let hospice workers destroy unneeded medications.
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The Atlantic Naloxone Retail Dispensing Is Up 70 Percent
An awareness campaign by the U.S. Surgeon General has led to a surge in demand for the overdose-reversal drug.
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Havakuk Levison / Reuters A Controversial Virus Study Reveals a Critical Flaw in How Science Is Done
After researchers resurrected a long-dead pox, some critics argue that it's too easy for scientists to make decisions of global consequence.
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Joan Alden / Getty The Gay Men Who Have Lived for Years With Someone Waiting on Their Death
At the height of the AIDS crisis, a number of Americans confronting HIV sold their life insurance for quick cash. Then lifesaving drugs came along.
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Joe McKendry When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains
A very short book excerpt
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Bebeto Matthews / AP The $1 Tool That Might Curb the Overdose Epidemic
A new study shows that fentanyl test strips nudge drug users to take extra precautions.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty Hallucinations Are Everywhere
Experiences like hearing voices are leading psychologists to question how all people perceive reality.
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Martha Dominguez de Gouveia / Unsplash / Undark The Communication Failure in Medical Record Keeping
Most hospitals in the U.S. use electronic charts and histories for their patients, but varied, incompatible platforms make it difficult to share critical information between institutions.
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Reuters Christine Blasey Ford Is Her Own Expert Witness
In testifying about her alleged sexual assault, she used her expertise as a psychologist who understands trauma.
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The Chimp Who Believed She Was Human
A social experiment goes awry when a couple adopts a baby chimpanzee and raises her as their daughter.
