This year’s hot topics in autism research center around brain organoids, heart rate, the gut microbiome, treatment timing and early detection.

An award-winning photography series offers a close look at one autistic person coming of age in New York City.

Here are seven Spectrum stories from this year that deserve a close look.

The end of the year is a time for reflection — and making predictions for the year ahead.

This year’s top papers deepen our understanding of autism’s genetics and reveal mixed results from trials of autism therapies.

In our favorite quotes from stories we published this year, researchers jump for joy, put themselves in parents’ shoes and contemplate the weirdness of the genome.