Meth, Murder, and Pirates: The Coder Who Became a Crime Boss

Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy?

A Mysterious Mold is Eating an 800-Year-Old Cathedral

The Secret History of a Vietnam War Airstrike Gone Terribly Wrong

From Fruit Fly To Stink Eye: Searching For Anger’s Animal Roots

Newborns can isolate words from speech

Earth’s magnetic field nearly died during critical transition

A Starfish-Killing Disease Is Remaking the Oceans

Neanderthals and Denisovans Shared a Siberian Cave for Thousands of Years, New Research Suggests

Searching for Fortune With America’s Last Uranium Prospector

See Inside the Newly Renovated King Tut’s Tomb

Whopping big viruses prey on human gut bacteria

How an Olympic Hopeful Robbed 26 Banks on His Bike

Henry Cotton: The Psychiatrist Who Tried to ‘Cure’ His Patients by Removing Their Teeth

When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger’s Cats

We see contrast because our eyes are always moving

New Species Of Shark Found In Fish Market

Vaccinating Mice May Finally Slow Lyme Disease

Study shows how LSD interferes with brain’s signalling

Seeking Superpowers in the Axolotl Genome

A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males

Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.

Bruce McArthur: Canadian landscaper admits eight murders

The Laws Of War Are Still Trying To Solve The Quandary Of Legal Nukes

Photos of the Dam Collapse Near Brumadinho, Brazil

The Newest Pictures of Asteroid Bennu Are Unreal

The Racism of 19th-Century Advertisements

Scientists create super-thin ‘sheet’ that could charge our phones

Study: ‘Bug bombs’ are ineffective killing roaches indoors

It’s time to start taking the search for E.T. seriously, astronomers say

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave

Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion

New technology gives unprecedented look inside capillaries

The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

Missing-link in planet evolution found

Operation Cobra: The untold story of how a CIA officer trained a network of agents who found the Soviet missiles in Cuba

His brother gunned down 17 people. But he’s the only family Zach Cruz has left.

The Oral History of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

The Personal Toll of Whistle-Blowing

Ancient giant burrowing bat found in New Zealand

Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality

He Helped Jews Escape the Holocaust. He Died Unknown.

Edward Gorey, the Father of Children’s Goth

Meet Gavin, the eight-year-old with a face shared more than 1bn times

Expedition targets Shackleton’s lost ship

Tiny but tough: the tardigrades

LGBT Navajos Discover Unexpected Champions: Their Grandparents

The Enduring Fight Over the First Ironman Triathlon

The coldest jobs in the world

The 500-Year-Long Science Experiment

Do microbes control the formation of giant copper deposits?

This metal is powering today’s technology—at what price?

‘Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety

Speaking Black Dialect in Courtrooms Can Have Striking Consequences

A Child’s Puzzle Helped Uncover How Magnets Really Work

A fading culture adapts to the changing times in this Arctic town

‘I predict a great revolution’: inside the struggle to define life

This Is What Happens When You Drunkenly Swallow a Live Catfish

On this day in 1972 a flight attendant boarded the wrong flight