Theo Padnos.
In 2012, Theo Padnos was kidnapped in Syria by the Nusra Front. After months of beatings and torture, he was certain he would be executed. Instead, he lived to tell this tale.
Chilaquiles à la Lydia Child.
Mixing old foods with new to make everything from cakes and corn breads to chilaquiles.
After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.
Ellen Langer’s experiments have shown that mental attitudes might reverse some ravages of old age. Now she wants to test that same radical principle on cancer.
Ilya Tyomkin at Warm Mineral Springs, North Port, Fla.
Down the back roads of strip-mall Florida, I hunted for the legendary reservoir that would keep me forever young.
Research abounds with studies of longevity that are often rife with contradictions. Here we offer a compilation of the latest claims in science.
“Brain training” games have become big business, but the research is still unclear about whether they improve your brain over all.
From Andrew Jackson to Joni Ernst, American politicians have a long history of appealing to voters as self-styled feisty populists. The midterms are no different. (They’re worse!)
Surge-pricing comes to the restaurant industry.
Let your mobile device be your personal trainer.
I came into the prison with anxiety and fear. What I didn’t expect was compassion.
Doctors thought they knew what was wrong, but why wasn’t the patient responding to the treatment?
Age groups, and aid groups.
The hosts of “With All Due Respect” swear that their political talk show is different.
What do kids around the world eat for breakfast? It’s as likely to be coffee or kimchi as it is a sugary cereal.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Converting Chinese rice fields into luxury villas.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
Two photographers capture scenes from the most recent outbreak of war.
With the help of a 30-pound “concave easel,” Trevor and Ryan Oakes are creating a handmade version of an Edward Steichen original.
A rare photograph of a nighttime breach.
Underwater photographs of infants learning to swim.
Finding order in the chaos of layers of advertisements lining the station walls.
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The anti-aging benefits of positive thinking, video games that keep the mind sharp, old masters who won't quit and more.
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