Just as medical care has evolved from bloodletting to germ theory, the medical spaces patients inhabit have transformed too. Today, architects and designers are trying to find ways to make hospitals more comfortable, in the hopes that relaxing spaces will lead to...

From National Geographic comes this report of the climatic phenomenon known as La Niña, preventing nourishing rains for the fourth season in a row, putting East Africa on the “brink of catastrophe.”If that happens, it will mark the longest drought the region has...