Hannah Bloch

About an hour's drive along the Gardez highway south of Kabul, beyond the bustling shops, the trucks spewing …

About an hour's drive south of Kabul, there's a vast Buddhist archaeological site dating back at least 1,500 …

Archaeologists in Afghanistan are uncovering a complex of Buddhist temples. Mining is expected to destroy the…

It's a distinction no country wants. In its most recent report on global trends, the U.N.'s refugee agency re…

The Islamic State's activities in Iraq and Syria are well-known, but the group is gaining a toehold elsewhere…

Amid the horrors of war in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, it's become easy to overlook Afghanistan. Remember Afghanis…

When Shah Selbe began attending environmental conferences several years ago, he felt like an odd man out. An …

When Edith Elliott was 13, her mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After a successful operation, Ms. Ell…

Five years ago, Kiah Williams, then 24, and two other young Stanford University graduates started devoting th…

Fifteen years ago, while languishing in traffic between Berkeley, Calif., and Silicon Valley, Carl Haber tune…

James Harrison, 78, has donated blood every few weeks for the past 60 years-and his is no ordinary donation I…

"Most of the work I do has to do with perception," says Naif Al-Mutawa, a U.S.-educated, Kuwaiti clinical psy…

A classical musician who plays with a prosthetic device helps young people with disabilities make music.

As an obstetrician for 14 years in Northern California, Laura Stachel celebrated the joys of childbirth. But …

When Oliver Percovich moved from Australia to Kabul in 2007 to follow his then-girlfriend, an aid worker, he …

When she learned last October that she had won an international Emmy award, first-time director Deeyah Khan, …

"It's not glamorous," Carla Dove says about her work. "It's a very messy, icky, gory job." Dr. Dove, a forens…

By Hannah Bloch "I always wanted to do something different," says Andrea Turkalo, one of the world's experts …

In 1996, a Cornell University graduate student from India took a VCR break from working on his dissertation t…

"I love it when people tell me I can't do something," says Jim Olson. A pediatric oncologist at Seattle's Fre…

If They Could Only Talk "The statues walked," Easter Islanders say. Archaeologists are still trying to figure…

At the end of the 19th century a middle-aged Swedish engineer, a patent officer captivated by the promise and…

Early one morning in Washington, D.C., Bruno Frohlich awaits a delivery at his office on the sixth floor of t…