How a steam-powered automobile in 1869 snuffed out the life of the brilliant female naturalist and astronomer Mary Ward...

What a bizarre psychological disorder can teach us about memory, human nature, and our sense of who we are

Scientists know how other animals’ bodies will change in warmer climates, but how will human beings respond?

The life of chimneysweeps was nasty, poor, brutish, filthy dirty, and usually short, thanks to a rare cancer of the genitals...

The long, wacky, and surprisingly thought-provoking history of trying animals in human courts...

The prologue and introduction to the book The Icepick Surgeon. Written by Sam Kean, read by Ben Sullivan.

How early anatomists provoked some of the strangest riots in history, over stolen corpses (plus, bonus preview of my new book, The Icepick Surgeon!)

How a rogue archaeologist in Peru—and a stolen skull—provided the first real evidence that ancient people practiced neurosurgery...

How one doctor in the early 1900s risked the lives of patients by pitting one ancient scourge (malaria) against another (syphilis)—and won a Nobel Prize in the process...

How greed, and a group of Nazi prisoners, killed off one of the most iconic birds in American history, the ivory-billed woodpecker...