Recent images of people across the Northern Hemisphere doing what they can to beat the heat

This is what happens when you put your launchpad near a wildlife refuge.

And four other neuroscience patients who changed how we think about the brain, and ourselves.

When time is measured in 10-million-year blocks, the lines between ecosystems and animals that would never have coexisted can get blurry.

A poem for Sunday

A collection of images of autumn—the best season

Twenty years after it was first published, Kirsten Bakis’s extraordinary novel Lives of the Monster Dogs still has a lot to say about the entwined destinies of animals and humans.

Medieval people had a lot of leprosy. So did their pet squirrels.