This year’s list of top papers highlights new dimensions in our understanding of autism genetics and hints at novel treatments.

This year, researchers made big headway on autism’s most perplexing questions.

At a center in Lima, Peru, people with autism learn to identify their strengths and find jobs that play to those strengths.

Early-career autism researchers record ‘elevator pitches’ of their projects.

Getting an autism diagnosis can be difficult for many adults, due to the dearth of reliable tests, high costs and bureaucracy.

Katie Carey, who has illustrated several Spectrum articles, reveals her creative process and her strategies for pushing past mental blocks.

Spectrum’s editors chose five stories from 2018 you may have missed the first time around.

In our favorite quotes from stories we published this year, researchers talk about where to store your marijuana for research, the significance of mouse-butt sniffing and the secret to productivity.

It’s been 10 years since Spectrum — well, one version of Spectrum — launched. Fittingly, in this anniversary year, we made forays into new territory.