Features 2023
Depression treatment with mushrooming potential
“Magic mushrooms” show great promise for treating stubborn depression. And research at UCSC could someday lead to a pill that delivers these psychedelics’ therapeutic promise without hallucinations, Anna Marie Yanny reports. Illustrations by Julia Kawai and Mica Carr.
Fighting for the Right to Know
Exposure to pesticides harms the health farming communities. Now some in those communities want to know when pesticides will be applied.
How to listen to black holes, touch stellar deathbeds and see the universe without sight
Non-visual astronomy reveals the universe to blind and low-vision audiences, Isabel Swafford reports.
The Science and Art of Saving Joshua Trees
The Science and Art of Saving Joshua Trees Joshua trees are stressed under environmental and human threats. Roxanne Hoorn reports on one artist and scientist’s fight to save them. Illustrated by Audrey Sauble and Emily Mitchell. Illustration: Audrey...
A mother places hope in novel hardware to control daughter’s epilepsy
Electricity injected into the vagus nerve in the neck can interrupt the seizures of patients with epilepsy, giving them and their caregivers a measure of control over the difficult disease.
PHOCASing on the Positive
Tunu has lived an unusual life. His journey — from Alaska to California and back to Alaska — has taken him to places that others of his kind will never see.
Breaking Ground
On the San Andreas Fault, a team of geologists has found evidence of powerful earthquakes from farther back in time than ever before. But California’s deep seismic history remains difficult to pin down.
