How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

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

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.

Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.

An interview with the actor.

After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.

Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.

In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.

Gabriel Jiménez built Nicolás Maduro a digital coin and nearly paid with his life.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.