Laura Beil Dissects a Criminal Doctor’s Surgical Rampage
Medical reporter Laura Beil hoped at least a few people would listen to the podcast she had been working on for months in 2018. After all her hard work, she says, she just didn’t […]
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Science Photojournalist Morgan Heim Illuminates Environmental Cost of California’s Trespass Marijuana Grows
In 2012, photojournalist and filmmaker Morgan Heim came across a study in PLOS One about Pacific fishers—house cat–sized carnivores that live in old-growth forests in the mountains of Northern California—being exposed to rat poison in […]
Lizzie Presser Reveals the Underground Work of Home-Abortion Providers
Before abortion was legal across the United States, underground networks of women—such as the Jane Collective in Chicago—worked secretly to help end unwanted pregnancies. They used herbs, pills surgical procedures [CORRECTED 9-4-18], and homemade devices […]
Linda Nordling Probes the Transformation of South African Science
While reporting for Nature about the decolonization of science in post-Apartheid South Africa, science journalist Linda Nordling found herself in an uncomfortable spot. Nordling, a native of Sweden, had long lived in the United Kingdom […]
Nidhi Subbaraman Uncovers a Story of Medical Neglect—and of Useful Anger—on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation
BuzzFeed News reporter Nidhi Subbaraman knew almost nothing about the long and troubled history of tribal health care in the United States when she began covering the lawsuit that the Rosebud Sioux tribe was bringing […]
Adriana Gallardo Finds the Untold Stories of Black Mothers
Every year, about 700 to 900 American women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. And for every death, dozens more suffer life-threatening complications. It’s a shockingly high toll of maternal harm for a […]
Rebecca Boyle Excavates Earth’s Earliest History
Earth has a memory problem. Few rocks have survived from the first billion years of the planet’s history, when all kinds of important things happened, including—perhaps—the first stirrings of life. This amnesia has made it […]
Marshall Allen Unearths Waste in Health Care
In 2012, ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen came across a staggering statistic: The U.S. health care system wastes an estimated $765 billion each year. That’s about a quarter of the total amount spent on health care […]
Maggie Koerth-Baker Explores the Legacy of a Very Prolific Panda
Today, there are 520 pandas living in captivity, and fully a quarter of them are the descendants of an especially fecund and recently deceased individual named Pan Pan. Like an ursine cross between Don Juan […]
Lizzie Wade Examines a Debate over the Origins of the Amazon’s Biodiversity
The western Amazon, which includes parts of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil, is one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. The 6.7-million-square-kilometer [2.6-million-square-mile] region is home to 10 percent of the […]
Maggie-Koerth Baker Untangles the Story behind Trump’s False Claims of Immigrant Voter Fraud
On the campaign trail leading up to last year’s presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump kept up a refrain that proved popular with his supporters: The election, he claimed, was rigged by fraudulent voters, many of […]
Peter Andrey Smith and Sruthi Pinnamaneni Interview a Doctor Trying to Untangle ALS “Reversals”
The worst thing about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the debilitating progress of the disease, which eventually leaves patients locked in their own bodies, aware of their decline but unable to move or talk. […]
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