Mosaic

  • How to mend a broken heart

    How to mend a broken heart

    The need to mend broken hearts has never been greater. But what if we could simply manufacture a new one?

  • Hacking the nervous system

    Hacking the nervous system

    One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric.

  • The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills

    The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills

    In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female.

  • This is what happens after you die

    This is what happens after you die

    Most of us would rather not think about what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways

  • Ebola: The road to zero

    Ebola: The road to zero

    The worst of the Ebola epidemic may be over but the World Health Organization has declared that life in Sierra Leone, as in other Ebola-affected West African countries, can only return to normal when transmission of the virus ceases and cases drop to zero. Unfortunately, not everyone in Sierra Leone is so concerned. Mark Honigsbaum…

  • The cost of pure water

    The cost of pure water

    If water is the elixir of human life, the one drink we can’t do without, it is also a carrier of death in many countries. According to the World Health Organization, nearly two billion people still drink water from sources that are tainted with faeces. That water kills at least half a million people each…

  • Why do we have allergies?

    Why do we have allergies?

    Allergies such as peanut allergy and hay fever make millions of us miserable, but scientists aren’t even sure why they exist. Carl Zimmer talks to a master immunologist with a controversial answer.

  • How a bee sting saved my life: poison as medicine

    How a bee sting saved my life: poison as medicine

    Ellie Lobel was ready to die. Then she was attacked by bees

  • Blocking the high: one man’s quixotic quest to cure addiction

    Blocking the high: one man’s quixotic quest to cure addiction

    If you could take the high out of drugs, what would be the point in taking them? Meet the unorthodox doctor who thinks he can block some of the world’s most addictive pills.