Susannah Cahalan

Consensual sexting is an ingrained part of teen hook-up culture.

In 1971, young-adult classic “Go Ask Alice” shocked readers with its frank depiction of an American girl’s descent into rampant drug addiction. Billed as the “real diary” of an anonymous, white sub…

The Gilded Age murder of a university benefactor was the cold-case crime of the century. A new book finally solves the mystery.

The house, known as just “1712,” was owned by actress Brooke Hayward and her enfant terrible husband Hopper during eight tumultuous years of marriage, and filled to the brim with her found objects …

The pandemic has been disastrous for rat PR.

Chen spent seven years interviewing more than 100 Silicon Valley engineers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and the service workers who “care” for them

After her husband left her, science writer Florence Williams found out how getting a divorce can make you ill — and even lead to early death.

A new book, “A Taste for Poison”, out now, by scientist and biophysics professor Neil Bradbury, outlines 11 poisons, how they work, and some of the most notorious criminals who deployed them.

Why more men are suffering from infertility than ever before.

Stanford psychology and law professor David Rosenhan could transfix an audience in a crowded lecture hall with just a few words. “What is abnormality?” he would ask undergraduate students, his deep…

INT. HOSPITAL / SUSANNAH’S ROOM — DAY (NEXT DAY) STEPHEN Talk to me Susannah… She speaks really low, as if losing her voice. SUSANNAH I just…I just… Stephen not breaking the gaze. Her voice quiveri…

The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed that risk-taking peaks during this exact moment in mid-adolescence. “We calcula…

On the Venn diagram of strange animal mating behaviors — from lobster golden showers to garter-snake orgies — duck sex is on the border between cartoonish and sadistic. That’s right, our beloved ma…

Want to fall down the Internet rabbit hole? Look up videos of the “animal mirror test.” Each has the same premise: Animals — domesticated, wild, doesn’t matter — encounter their own reflections, li…

David had just graduated college when he first decided he wanted to cut off his leg. It had plagued him for years. He considered it “alien,” something not part of his body, and even propped himself…

G’s that look like I’s, F’s that sound like “Waw,” and Q’s that look like monkeys — man, was our alphabet a mess. That’s because many of our letters began as Egyptian hieroglyph symbols 4,000 years…

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Psychologist Kiley Hamlin expected the 8-month old to pick the “good” puppet. Hundreds of studies had already confirmed that infants, 166 of the 188 tested by Hamlin, prefer the helper puppets in e…

Cemetery John The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping by Robert Zorn The Overlook Press It was the “Crime of the Century,” the “biggest story since the Resurrection,” and 80 years l…

When Richard Burton first laid eyes on a ravishing 21-year-old, bikini-clad Elizabeth Taylor, he was so awestruck that he almost laughed out loud. “A girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowe…