Cinematic shots of Californian farmland frame the stories of its immigrant workers, who live between precarity and hope ...

If humans disappeared tomorrow, about 1 billion dogs would be left on their own. The first clue to whether dogs would survive is here, in the basic demographics of current dog populations. These ...

Several years ago, I left my medical practice for a long vacation. On the morning of my first day back, my alarm went off. I pushed the button in and, for a few minutes, lay with the light off. Then, ...

A cherished local tradition keeps memories of the departed alight in this tiny village on England’s southwest coast ...

The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury ...

What is it about lulls in conversation that make them so very uncomfortable? It has to do with how we connect with each other ...

Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them ...

Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music ...

The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest bird in North America, has existed near the brink of extinction for decades, ...

An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

The diagnostic category of adult ADHD is becoming more inclusive. That’s not the same as it being overdiagnosed ...

Sarah was in her late teens when it first happened. A normal Thursday, it was early morning and pitch-black outside. The wind rattled the trees, branches rapping the windowpanes like a nervous visitor ...