Scientific American
Hype about Gluten-Free Diets
Other wheat components are more likely to trigger health problems
3 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Plastic Was Supposed to Be Sustainable
Synthetic polymers became one of our biggest environmental crises instead
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Coping with a LifeAltering Diagnosis
When a child has a major health issue, learning how to manage new routines and expectations can be the key to everyone’s happiness
5 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
The Many Moons of Saturn
Edward Ashton helped to discover two thirds of the planet's known moons
5 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Serenading Cells
Cells can “hear” and respond to sounds
2 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
RNA, Not DNA, Is the Key to Life
DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives
4 min |
September 2025
Scientific American
PEANUT PROOF
Remarkable new treatments can free millions of kids and adults from the deadly threat of peanut allergy, tackling one of our fastest-growing medical problems
10+ min |
September 2025
Scientific American
Gut Check
Microbes in the human intestines may absorb dangerous PFAS
3 min |
September 2025
The New Yorker
RANSOM NOTES
“Highest 2 Lowest.”
6 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
GHOULS DEPT.- FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN
The Swedish hard-rock band GHOST appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” last month. When the group formed, in Linköping, in 2006, its members were anonymous, and their devotion to Satan was deep and jubilant. On a track from GHOST’s first album, the vocalist Tobias Forge offered up a demonic mandate:
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
THE ROOF IS ON FIRE
Was it racial capitalism that burned the Bronx?
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
MISSED CONNECTIONS
Inside the world of DNA surprises.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
THE ACHIEVER
The otherworldly ambitions of R. F. Kuang.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
SOME FUNNY THINGS ABOUT GETTING OLD
Children run alongside and taunt you, because you're old, but you don't care, because your hearing is shot!
1 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
COMMENT - BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Tourists who came to Washington, D.C., last week—tromping from one Smithsonian collection to another, eating ice cream on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—witnessed a bit of history that they surely had not anticipated: the beginning of President Trump's takeover of the District.
4 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
SOMETHING HAS COME TO LIGHT
I trust I'll be in Heaven when you read this, although God, in His wisdom, may have other things in store for me.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
ME, MYSELF, AND I
Helen Oyeyemi's novel of cognitive dissonance.
7 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
POWER PLAY
In Pam Bondi, Donald Trump has the Attorney General he always dreamed of.
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
LOCAL CRITTERS DUMPSTRUCK
One humid afternoon in July, José Ramírez-Garofalo drove his large Toyota truck through the lush new hills, valleys, and meadows of Freshkills Park, a twenty-two-hundred-acre green space that the city is constructing on Staten Island.
3 min |
August 25, 2025
The New Yorker
MONEY BALL
Will Bill Belichick—ex-N.F.L. royalty—transform the college-sports mecca of Chapel Hill?
10+ min |
August 25, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Short-term rentals decline in L.A. area as rules tighten
Other hosts are opting for midterm rentals — stays of longer than 30 days but less than a year—independent ofthe fires.
3 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
‘Teens have each other’ via this youth hotline
Hirsch Mental Health Services, Teen Line is helping to fill an ever-widening gap between the need for mental health support and the resources available.
4 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
2 men charged with murder in cannabis case
Two Los Angeles County men accused of running an illegal cannabis extraction business have been charged with murder after five of their workers died in two separate incidents, authorities said.
2 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Founder of eponymous landmark restaurant
Dan Tana, the restaurateur whose eponymous Santa Monica Boulevard eatery has for decades been a Hollywood hot spot — one with dishes named for celebrities who are liable to be there on any given night — died in Belgrade, Serbia, on Saturday. He was 90.
3 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Hamby, Plum unable to prevent Sparks loss
Sonia Citron tied her career high with five three-pointers and finished with 24 points, Kiki Iriafen added 18 points and 10 rebounds and the Washington Mystics beat the Sparks 95-86 on Sunday.
1 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Brewers’ record 14-game winning streak ended by the Reds
Austin Hays’ single with the bases loaded in the 10th inning gave the Cincinnati Reds a 3-2 victory over Milwaukee on Sunday, ending the Brewers’ franchise-record winning streak at 14 games.
3 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Do-it-all linebacker Phillips ‘very obsessed with the process’
With a keen nose for ballcarriers, Ventura High game-wrecker is often in weight room.
2 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Whose house? Rams, Chargers fans are true blue
Battle for Los Angeles plays out at SoFi with both sides displaying their undying loyalty.
3 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Their reign in the sun never felt better
Nuss, Brasher cherish their repeat at the Manhattan Beach Open
2 min |
August 18, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Teens step up to help youth mental health
Teen Line, an L.A.-based nonprofit project, aims to fill the gap from federal cuts.
5 min |