Prospector

If Westerners can overcome their disgust of crickets—or any bug—as food, the environmental benefits could be significant.

Donald Kagin holds the only doctorate degree in the study of the so-called hobby of kings.

West Baltimore's unlikely source of fruit.

How to run for your life and make new friends at the same time.

From beer milers to long-distance crawlers, the unending appeal of being No. 1.

Even though he's still a teenager, Catalin Voss is already a six-year veteran of the i-app industry, and now he's turning his attention to figuring out how computers might interact with humans more perceptively.

With typically careful packaging, Amazon opens its doors to the public.

Can California go full-renewable?

Fossil Cycad National Monument was home to one of the world’s greatest collections of fossilized cycadeoids—until visitors carried them all away.

What California’s senior state archaeologist discovered in the ruins of a hippie commune.

The fierce battle over genetic purity, writ small. Very small.

In a slow market, anxious sellers may hire a home stager to draw attention to their property, ultimately adding to the surging cost of real estate.

Why can't triathletes and weightlifters get along?

Swim lessons in international waters.

Humans are hardwired to go jelly-kneed around creatures with kinderschema—infant traits like big eyes, big head, and small body. Can we resist it?

Doctors today are too uncomfortable with uncertainty.

The hottest ticket in town.

The complicated relationship between citizenship and genetics.

In a zero-tolerance era, at least one principal, armed with studies that show how suspensions disengage students and funnel them into a "school to prison" pipeline, is taking a different approach.

Modern dinner is stressful by design.

Increased vigilance isn't necessarily the best way to prevent child-safety issues and injuries.

Psychologists, sociologists, and neuroscientists like Facebook—and Facebook likes them back.

A fellow at the James Randi Educational Foundation, Leo Igwe is running a high-voltage campaign against witchcraft beliefs in Africa. Can he convince us to join his crusade against evils half a world away?

On wearable brain scanners and telepathic toys.