“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.
Exposure to pesticides harms the health farming communities. Now some in those communities want to know when pesticides will be applied.
Non-visual astronomy reveals the universe to blind and low-vision audiences, Isabel Swafford reports.
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.
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.
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.
California condors nearly disappeared from the world by the 1980s, and haven’t graced the skies of the Pacific northwest in over a century. Now, Elyse DeFranco reports on the Yurok tribe’s journey to bring the birds home.
To ensure the future of the Bay, researchers are exploring its past and present ecosystems, Brittney J. Miller reports.
After nearly going extinct, the mountain yellow-legged frog has emerged victorious in this tale of resurrection and recovery from the chytrid fungus.
An astrophysicist tests her innovative theory to explain why DNA always twists to the right, Zack Savitsky reports.