Veronique Greenwood

How Birds Lost Flight

Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.

You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

Being Black at Work

Realizing the full potential of black employees

Financial and mental health are linked

Around the globe, Vikram Patel finds, improvements in financial or mental health support both.

Clues to the persistence of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

The gas giant’s storms could be driven by processes thousands of kilometers below the surface.