A compassionate substance (from Lapham's Quarterly) / Philip Ball
The search for alien life begins in earth's oldest desert (from The Atlantic) / Rebecca Boyle
Glimpses of a mass extinction in modern-day western New York (from The New Yorker) / Peter Brannen
This sand is your sand (from Outside) / Chris Colin
The brain, reimagined (from Scientific American) / Dougals Fox
Little golden flower-room: on wild places and intimacy (from The Millions) / Conor Gearin
The endling: watching a species vanish in real time (from Pacific Standard) / Ben Goldfarb
What if the placebo effect is not a trick? (from The New York Times Magazine) / Gary Greenberg
The great rhino U-turn (from Mongabay) / Jeremy Hance
The fading star: a constellation (from Lapham's Quarterly) / Holly Haworth
Saving baby boy green (from Wired) / Eva Holland
The fire at Eagle Creek (from Topic) / Apricot Irving
Deleting a species (from Pacific Standard) / Rowan Jacobsen
The insect apocalypse is here (from The New York Times Magazine) / Brooke Jarvis
No heart, no moon (from The Southern Review) / Matt Jones
The scientific detectives probing the secrets of ancient oracles (from Atlas Obscura) / Kevin Krajick
Your really don't want to know what it's like to be a right whale these days (from Atlantic) / J.B. MacKinnon
How extreme weather is shrinking the planet (from The New Yorker) / Bill McKibben
The story of a face (from The New Yorker) / Rebecca Mead
How to not die in America (from Splinter) / Molly Osberg
Why paper jams persist (from The New Yorker) / Joshua Rothman
The professor of horrible deeds (from The Chronicle of Higher Education) / Jordan Michael Smith
Welcome to the center of the universe (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone
The hidden toll: why are black mothers and babies in the United States dying at more than double the rate of white mothers and babies? The answer has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America (from The New York Times Magazine) / Linda Vilarosa
When the next plague hits (from The Atlantic) / Ed Yong
Paper trails: living and dying with fragmented medical records (from Undark) / Ilana Yurkiewicz.
