Stories by Allison Parshall

The outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election could set the climate agenda, reshape public education and shift the dynamics of global science collaboration.

Election polls are increasingly vulnerable to huge mistakes

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce

Inspired by a classic movie, conservationists are teaching endangered Northern Bald Ibises to fly south for the winter

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world

The presidential candidates differ on classroom censorship, school choice, federal funding for schools, and more

What can singing tell us about how we’re wired—and how our ancestors evolved?

The musical Lifeline tells the story of Sir Alexander Fleming’s discovery of antibiotics, as these revolutionary drugs continue to lose their efficacy

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

After decades of work, physicists have finally broken into the atom to build the first nuclear clock

U.S. Senators and Representatives whose family had a history of enslaving others have greater present-day wealth

Polymetallic blobs are producing “dark oxygen” from the depths of the ocean—and no one knows exactly how.

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

Dosing errors in the medication semaglutide, prescribed as Wegovy and Ozempic, can cause severe or prolonged gastrointestinal issues that require medical attention

Pilot programs across the U.S., including new research funded by OpenAI, offer a glimpse of how a universal basic income could improve lives

Baffling new results show that rocklike mineral deposits in the deep sea can produce oxygen

The Seine will be the stage for the Paris 2024 Olympics’ Opening Ceremony—and for its marathon swimming events. But this urban waterway is challenging to keep clean.

Ozempic, Wegovy and other GLP-1 drugs are being investigated as treatments for many health conditions—from dementia to addiction to kidney problems

How to finally wrap your mind around the uniquely counterintuitive Monty Hall dilemma

A preliminary study suggests that sex and gender are represented differently in the brain

Claims that Przewalski’s horses were discovered in the U.S. are unverified. But the conservation story behind the last truly wild horse is worth your time.

Przewalski’s horses, once extinct in the wild, are revitalizing Kazakhstan’s “Golden Steppe”

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories