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Caroline White, who hears voices in her heard, said psychiatric therapy had made her feel "hopeless, because the drugs just made me feel worse." Sasha Maslov for The New York Times

An Alternative Form of Mental Health Care Gains a Foothold

By BENEDICT CAREY

A movement toward largely nonmedical approaches, focused on holistic recovery rather than symptom treatment, is growing in the United States.

Henry Molaison's brain in a lab at the University of California, San Diego. Photograph taken in 2009.

Spencer Lowell

The Brain That Couldn't Remember

By LUKE DITTRICH

The untold story of the fight over the legacy of "H.M." — the patient who revolutionized the science of memory.

• A Conversation with Luke Dittrich

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Smoke, Fire and Human Evolution

By STEPH YIN

Figuring out how to make fire was no doubt an evolutionary boon to our ancestors. But it may have led to our smoking habit and the emergence of tuberculosis.

A lightning storm in Utikuma Lake, Alberta, in June. The area was burned from the 2011 wildfire. After each fire, peat moss grows and accumulates carbon, building a new layer on top of the previous one.

Ed Ou for The New York Times

As Peat Bogs Burn, a Climate Threat Rises

By HENRY FOUNTAIN

Warming temperatures can dry out northern peatlands, increasing the risk of fires that release thousands of years of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

Kaye Blegvad

Do Your Friends Actually Like You?

By KATE MURPHY

Recent research suggests that only about half of perceived friendships are mutual.

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Michael Phelps competed in the final of the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay during the 2016 Summer Olympics with some strange purple dots on his arm and back.

What Are the Purple Dots on Michael Phelps? Cupping Has an Olympic Moment

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

An ancient Chinese therapy called "cupping" is leaving its mark — purple, bruise-like dots — on Olympic athletes in Rio.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2014.

Upon Closer Look, Hints of a New Elementary Particle Vanish

By DENNIS OVERBYE

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider reveal that mounds of data did not support the possibility of a new particle.

• Chasing the Higgs (March 2013)

Pretty Girls Are Supposed to Smile

By EFFY REDMAN

I was born with Moebius syndrome, a rare form of facial paralysis that leaves me unable to smile.

A photomicrograph showing stem cells. The N.I.H. is considering changing the policy for funding experiments that include both human and animal stem cells.

N.I.H. May Fund Research of Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos

By GINA KOLATA

The agency had banned funding for these kinds of experiments last September, but is reconsidering allowing some under strict conditions.

A view of skeletons in a cave in a village called Lajia, which is said to have been destroyed in an earthquake in China thousands of years ago.

Evidence of Flood May Give Credence to Legend of China's First Dynasty

By NICHOLAS WADE

Historians have long wondered whether the Great Flood was a myth, but archaeologists and geologists have discovered data about a dam that supports the story.