
Sigal Samuel
Senior Reporter
Latest articles by Sigal Samuel


With a new law — and massive new detention camps — the country is undermining its status as a democracy.
Why women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack and 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash.


The plague is still a problem around the world — including in the US.

A psychologist claims that learning “untranslatable words” from other cultures may be a key to being happy. I experimented on myself to see whether it’s true.

9 questions about biohacking you were too embarrassed to ask.


Almost 14,000 people’s faces were non-consensually scanned in Washington. Sound creepy? That’s the point.


In the US, one person dies every 15 minutes because of drug resistance.


How dopamine fasting works — and doesn’t.

Is it better to invest in developing clean energy technologies, say, or in trying to get a Democrat elected president?


Unnatural Selection tackles tough questions about CRISPR gene editing, designer babies, and more.