If you’re like me, you or a loved one has struggled through the process of gaining pre-approval for the medical care that your physician has recommended. Personal stories abound regarding the ...

Popular culture is full of stories about devoted animal parents who’ll do anything for their young. Consider Disney classics like “Dumbo,” in which Mrs. Jumbo, a circus elephant, is labeled as ...

The pioneering field biologist George B. Schaller was born into an era at odds with his life’s work. By the time he reached places like Brazil, India, and the Himalayas, ecological destruction was ...

In 2015, Peter Stout, head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, began administering a test that was designed to not look like a test. Like many crime labs in the United States, analysts at the ...

To the naked eye, Annie Kathuria’s experiments look a bit like tiny tufts of cotton floating in pink Petri dishes. These unassuming orbs are clusters of millions of human brain cells called brain ...

Genetics is rarely as simple as introductory biology classes make it seem. Only some biological traits, such as blood groups or dry ear wax, are linked to a single gene and passed on in the ...

On a cold spring day in 542 AD, a galley ship dropped anchor at the Golden Horn in Constantinople, bearing a load of grain from Egypt. Workers swarmed the ship, unloading much-needed supplies that ...

For decades, a global transition has been underway: The slow, sometimes clumsy shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Changing just one industry requires a significant infrastructural makeover.

By Mark Olalde and Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, and Jimmy Tobias for High Country News. Photography by Roberto “Bear” Guerra, High Country News Once every 10 years, ranchers must renew the permits that ...

Just EAST of downtown Albuquerque, in the basement of a blocky beige University of New Mexico building, sits a machine that looks like a sci-fi piece of industrial equipment. Metal cylinders, painted ...

Maybe a client hears about them in the comment section of the Facebook group “Medical Exemption Accepted,” or on the r/unvaccinated forum on Reddit. Maybe it’s through an interview posted on the video ...

Ashburn is a largely middle-class, predominately African American, Hispanic, and Latino community on Chicago’s far Southwest Side. The community borders two neighboring suburbs and is known for its ...