The Strongest Evidence Yet for a Highly Controversial Addiction Treatment
When other approaches fail, the most effective way to fight a heroin addiction can be heroin itself.
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Ethan Hil / Spectrum Autism Risk Is Tough to Pin Down During Pregnancy
As the fetal brain develops in the womb, factors ranging from air quality to birth timing could have lasting effects.
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Courtesy of Amina Akhtar The Dog That’s Famous for Not Wanting to Be Eaten by a Coyote
Meet Beanie. Her viral spiky vest is the latest in a long line of protective gear for pets.
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Georg Wieselthaler / The New England Journal of ... Doctors Aren’t Sure How This Even Came Out of a Patient
Somehow, a man coughed up an intact blood clot shaped like a lung passage.
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Karl-Göran Sjögren An Ancient Case of the Plague Could Rewrite History
A 4,900-year-old skeleton has turned the accepted story of the disease on its head.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The U.S. Appetite for Sugar Has Skyrocketed
Americans are eating too much of the sweet stuff, and a staggering portion of it is coming from drinks like soda.
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Morinka / Shutterstock How Pink Salt Took Over Millennial Kitchens
It’s not healthier for you. It doesn’t technically come from the Himalayas. But pink salt’s appeal has exploded nonetheless.
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Tomasz Bobrzynski / Getty The AI That Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat
Can an app lead to better-tasting food by digitally measuring flavor?
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Reuters The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Victoria’s Secret Has a Mean-Girl Problem
For generations, fashion brands were free to set strict standards for feminine appearance. Then social media happened.
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Philippe Laurenson / Reuters I Smelled Like a Man for a Day
There’s a reason men’s body washes and deodorants all seem to have that same, specific scent.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters ‘Juul’s a Business, and They’re Behaving Like a Business’
The e-cigarette giant is on an atonement tour. But who is it really for?
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Jianan Yu / Reuters Americans Are Dying Even Younger
Drug overdoses and suicides are causing American life expectancy to drop.
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Victoria Bee Photography / Getty America Doesn’t Understand Gateway Drugs
More teens now try marijuana before alcohol or cigarettes. This complicates a long-held narrative about how people spiral into drug abuse.
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Virginia Sherwood / NBC New Amsterdam Is a Medical Drama That Fails Doctors—And Viewers
A resident physician at the hospital that helped inspire the NBC show explains the dark side of the feel-good series.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Why So Many People Hate Winter
Science suggests that there are two types of people who tolerate the cold well. Sadly, I’m neither.
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The ‘Male Wish’ That Traps Young Women
A 1959 Atlantic article tried to understand how increased opportunity for women could change the female experience of sex and romance.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Small Island Where 500 People Speak Nine Different Languages
Its inhabitants can understand each other thanks to a peculiar linguistic phenomenon.
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Mark Schiefelbein / AP A Reckless and Needless Use of Gene Editing on Human Embryos
A researcher’s claim that two CRISPR-edited baby girls have been born has been met with widespread condemnation from scientists and ethicists alike.
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Yorgos Karahalis / Reuters The Bacteria Lurking in American Showerheads
The water that flows through your home is teeming with microbial life. Trying to kill it off likely does more harm than good.
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Associated Press The Charity Walkathon Is Dead
Long live the charity walkathon.
