Big Brains

Lithium ion electric batteries

The Crucial Race to Build a Better Battery with Shirley Meng

Dog sleeping

Do Animals Dream? with David M. Peña-Guzmán

Heat wave

Extreme Heat Waves: Why Are They Surging? with Noboru Nakamura

Haze from the Canadian wildfires covers the Chicago skyline

Why Air Pollution Is Cutting Years Off Our Lives, with Christa Hasenkopf and Anant Sudarshan

Welcome to Delaware sign

How tax dodging and corporate secrecy found a home in Delaware, with Hal Weitzman

Toy tanks on a map

Why Countries Choose War Over Peace, with Chris Blattman

Metal urn at funeral

From green burials to DIY funerals, how death in America is changing with Shannon Lee Dawdy

Closeup view of antibiotic resistant virus

The troubling rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, with Christopher Murray

Illustration depicting the scientific method

Is scientific progress slowing? with James Evans

Illustration of a man stuck inside a pill bottle

Could we vaccinate against opioid addiction? with Sandra Comer and Marco Pravetoni