Today I published a story I’ve been working on, off and on, for exactly two years. “What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial is Stopped” now on...
“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...
The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...
My latest story, about how autism starts, starts like this: One of the oldest ideas in autism — as old as the naming of the condition itself — is that it comes ...
Around this time, Insel told me recently, he’d just finished a talk describing the wonderful things the NIMH was discovering about the brain when a man in the a...
I spent much of last winter working on a story about what it might take to end global blindness. I’m tickled to see the result now on and inside the cover...
I’m honored to have written this story of a rare, severely debilitating disorder; the researchers trying to crack it; and the uncommon love between a fath...
Accountability journalism ain’t quite dead yet. Azeen Ghorayshi with another great scoop on horrid behavior. One of the employees was an administrator who...
Carl Zimmer on memory researcher Andre Fenton, comeback researcher of the year. In an age when we get a lot of our medical news in click-baity headlines and has...
Richard Dawkins’s “The Selfish Gene,” book and meme, is now 40 years old. Has it served its purpose? And how do we talk about whether it has? ...