Prospector

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

• By Jennifer Baires

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

• By Chris Colin

West Baltimore's unlikely source of fruit.

• By Steve Patrick Ercolani

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

• By Matthew Quirk

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

• By Caroline Paul

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.

• By Adam Tanner

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

• By Mark Athitakis

Can California go full-renewable?

• By Ann Louise Bardach

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

• By Kate Siber

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

• By Jon Mooallem

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

• By Brendan Borrell

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.

• By Kyle DeNuccio

Why can't triathletes and weightlifters get along?

• By Daniel Duane

Swim lessons in international waters.

• By Bonnie Tsui

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?

• By Caroline Paul

Doctors today are too uncomfortable with uncertainty.

• By Sandeep Jauhar

The hottest ticket in town.

• By Veronique Greenwood

The complicated relationship between citizenship and genetics.

• By Tori Marlan

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.

• By Jesse Katz

Modern dinner is stressful by design.

• By Britt Peterson

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

• By Janet Hopson

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

• By Bonnie Tsui

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?

• By Brendan Borrell

On wearable brain scanners and telepathic toys.

• By Jason Kehe