Society

Today, the nearly 20-year Cassini-Huygens mission ended in dramatic fashion, with the Cassini orbiter plunging directly into Saturn. Here are some of the spacecraft’s notable accomplishments.

Opinion: Lee Smolin on the intersection of the two practices, and why Canada is an ideal locus for scientific research

From 2017: Around the world, environmentalists have been arguing for the rights of animals and entire ecosystems in the courts—and they’re winning

As millions of people across the Caribbean and Florida begin to recover from the storm, here’s a look at what we know so far about Irma’s destruction.

Anne Kingston: Marquee names at Women in the World do what host Tina Brown’s celebrity magazine covers once did: make you buy the issue so you’ll read the more interesting stories inside

Opinion: Five simple changes to how health care is provided could improve services for Canadians, say physicians-in-training

A commercial fisherman, he also co-founded a whale rescue team. He loved the ocean and felt he had to give back to it.

An excerpt from Payam Akhavan’s 2017 Massey Lecture explores the reality and psychology of ISIS fighters.

From 2017: A call to action from the UN’s youngest-ever war crimes prosecutor