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Elizabeth Austin shares her tumultuous journey as a mother navigating her daughter's cancer diagnosis. While other parents seem to embody strength and hope, Austin reveals her struggles with alcohol and despair, a stark contrast to the idealized image of a "cancer mom.”

We all have different lines when it comes to how and when AI should be used. Benjamin Breen writes about some of his experiments with it while using it for historical research, and how it can be a valuable tool.

Through the lens of her father's battle with mesothelioma, a disease caused by exposure to asbestos, Charlotte Bailey explores the devastating impact of asbestos. She challenges the perception that asbestos is a relic of the past, but a thread that many still face today, decades ...

Played down by the Catholic Church and resurrected by modern acolytes as a pagan fire goddess, her shifting cultural meanings conceal the remarkable life of a real early medieval abbess.

Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us.

Kali Wallace writes about the allure of large trees and magnificent fictional forests.

Andrea Pitzer reflects on a childhood shaped by their families devastating experience with Amway. Amway's promises of wealth and opportunity consumed her mother's life for decades, leading to financial ruin and strained family relationships.

In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecological apocalypse.

The need for lithium is driving a global race for resources – and plans for a mine 120 miles from Belgrade have triggered social and political turmoil.

Seuk Kim left behind a finance career to chase his dream of becoming a pilot. He took off one day in November with four dogs on board, a trip that would not go according to plan.