Katherine Harmon Courage
We’re All Wild Things
Welcome to the Animal Issue
The Kinship Issue
Connection is primal.
When Reality Feels Unreal
Why your life sometimes feels alien to you.
Jupiter’s Incredible Shrinking Spot
Earth’s meteorology could explain what’s behind the great red whorl’s waning.
The Hidden Butterfly Trade
How the lucrative market could spark conservation.
Who Controls Your Thoughts?
Our minds are being coerced in covert ways.
How to Find and Keep a Space Rock
NASA cosmic dust curator Marc Fries is here to explain.
Jupiter’s Io Gets a Close-Up
A new image of our solar system’s most volcanic body.
Portrait of a Fractured Arctic
What the melting permafrost looks and sounds like to a scientist.
Five Curiosities From Medical History
Photos from the Mütter Museum’s newly searchable collection.