As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.

The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

One of the most valuable cars in the world crashes going 200 mph on the Pacific Coast Highway. Its owner claims to be an anti-terrorism officer. In fact, he’s a former executive at a failed software company—and a career criminal. The unraveling of an epic con.

Her creepy, surreal YouTube videos have millions of views, but no one knows Poppy’s full story.

Bangalore was once the icon of a globalized, high tech, utopian future. Now it’s a sign of global catastrophe.

Imagine you felt like your skin was always on fire. Imagine you couldn’t even feel a bone break. The genetic link between those two extremes could hold the key to ending physical suffering.

An oddball team of ship salvagers is tasked with uprighting a tipped two-football-field-long cargo ship before it sinks into the darkness of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.

Searching for the world’s most prolific bank robber.

How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

How New York Times is clawing its way into the future:

The main goal is... to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering... while continuously adding new online services and features... so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones.

Abdullahi Yusuf was 18 and ready to dedicate his life to ISIS when federal agents pulled him aside in the Minneapolis airport. He will never see the inside of a jail cell.

A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.

In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.

In their struggle for survival, bees have an unlikely ally: Monsanto.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”

In 2001, Maksym Igor Popov defected to work as an informant in the U.S. But a decade later, he was back to scamming the FBI.

In a nondescript office park in suburban Florida, a company you’ve never heard of is making a product that few people have ever seen. And it has $1.4 billion in funding.

Susie Mc­Kinnon cannot hold a grudge. She is unfamiliar with the feeling of regret and oblivious to aging. She has no core memories. And yet she knows who she is.

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.