Edwin Ochoa News Today

Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of depression.

Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential.

As conflagrations become more difficult to contain, a citizen movement to try to manage them through “prescribed burns” is growing

The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery

Attempts to restrict what kids in school can read are on the rise. But American book-banning started with the Puritans, 140 years before the United States

A summer of news reports about orca, otter and bird “attacks” has the public wondering if trying to understand animal behavior in human terms is misguided

Two chroniclers of explorers, including one who profiled OceanGate’s Stockton Rush, reflect on what visiting the depths of the ocean can—and can’t—teach us

In the latest episode of “There’s More to That,” learn about the Western waterway that affects the lives of everyone in the United States

“There’s More to That” host Chris Klimek talks with a journalist about earlier depictions of the Manhattan Project scientist