In The Asteroid Hunter, Dante Lauretta chronicles the quest to retrieve a sample from Bennu, which is one of the large asteroids that is most likely to collide with the Earth.

The young adults who comprise Generation Z live in a world of far less violent crime relative to the generation before them. So, why are so many of them struggling? Educator John Creger thinks he has part of the answer: They often need help understanding who they are in this world.

Anne Curzan might seem like a strange sort of English teacher: The veteran professor doesn’t believe in “right” and wrong” when it comes to language and grammar.

Laura Lewis met a bonobo named Louise as part of a study on the capacity of chimps and bonobos to remember the faces of apes they’d spent time with years earlier. And she did.

Sarah McCammon grew up in an evangelical family, where she was taught to never question her faith. Like many Americans, she was plagued deep questions, but scared to leave.

Nematodes weren’t known to live in the Great Salt Lake until recently. And, in fact, very little lives there — because the lake’s salinity makes most life untenable. But as it turns out, these tiny worms were doing just fine.

When humans debate climate policy, the questions asked are often posed in terms of what will work best. Fairness isn’t always, or even often, taken into account. Stacia Ryder thinks that needs to change.

Ultra-processed food and the companies that produce them contribute to the epidemic in diabetes, cancer, dementia, and other chronic disease. Is it time to regulate these products like tobacco?

Memory is not a rigid, static picture of what came before. Rather, it’s a nebulous, ever-changing conceptualization of who we were, what we believed, what happened to us, and what was happening around us.

There is precedent for humans connecting with other living things, like getting attention, love, and companionship from dogs and cats and a few other animals that have been domesticated to provide partnership. Now, there’s a new option for meeting this need — social robots — who may end up being even better at fulfilling the human desire for connection.