Soon There Will Be Unlimited Hair
New uses of stem cells and 3-D printing could make baldness obsolete (for the wealthy).
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Peter Cade / Ascent Xmedia / Getty Canned Cocktails Give Millennials What They’ve Always Desired
The perfect drink for a medium-fancy generation
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An Unflinching Look at Parenting Undiagnosed Special-Needs Kids
The Krakowiaks’ two children are severely disabled, yet neither has received a conclusive diagnosis.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Real Difference Between Smoking and Eating Marijuana
There might be a simple explanation for why edibles make some people so paranoid.
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Richard Newstead / Getty I Found the Key to the Kingdom of Sleep
It’s my foot.
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Eloy Alonso / Reuters What It Means to Be a Bad Mom
Inside the mind of a psychologist who helps determine whether parents are “good enough” to keep their children
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Joyce Naltchayan / AFP / Getty The LGBTQ Health Clinic That Faced a Dark Truth About the AIDS Crisis
America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters The WHO Finally Sounds Its Loudest Alarm Over Ebola in the Congo
The ongoing outbreak is the second worst in history and has proved to be unusually difficult to contain.
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David McNew / Getty Elon Musk’s Next Wild Promise
If someone is going to revolutionize what it means to be human, do we want it to be a tech titan?
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Richard Drury / Getty The Rise of Coffee Shaming
Personal-finance gurus really hate coffee.
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Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
Your mood might have a big influence on the type of companionship you want.
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Melissa Ross / Getty A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight
A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
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Morphart Creation / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Suffragists Who Opposed Birth Control
Their reasoning shows how far women’s rights have come since the late 1800s.
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The Stories From Room 140
Guatemalan migrants describe what they endured before and after asking for asylum in the United States.
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Alastair Grant / AP Photo The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide
For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot LGBTQ teens in trouble. Can Google help?
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Tianhua Mao / Spectrum Some Parents Are Feeding Parasites to Their Kids With Autism
Evidence connecting the condition to the human microbiome is growing stronger. Could swallowing tapeworms really help?
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Joe McKendry Your Brain on Smog
A very short book excerpt
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Thinkstock Images / Getty Why Americans Just Can’t Quit Their Microwaves
The quest for a quick dinner fix is eternal.
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‘1 Million Americans Will Be Shot in the Next Decade’
Trauma surgeons describe gun violence as a public-health crisis.
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David Gray / Reuters The Reason Anxious People Often Have Allergies
There might be a hidden link between seasonal sniffles and mood disorders.
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The Horrors of ICE’s ‘Trans Pod’
A woman who spent two months in solitary confinement in a “transgender pod” tells her story.
