In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.

The people who run these platforms have to make decisions about the greater good—whether they want to or not.

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.

In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.

How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery.

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

Exploring the dark and far-reaching consequences of our dependence on the Internet.

Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered—but so did activism.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

A spoiler-filled interview with the creator of The White Lotus.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

From 1968-1973, the three teenage Wiggin sisters, guided by a domineering father, played their strange music at New Hampshire ballrooms and recorded a single album. The Philosophy of the World LP goes for over $500 today, but the intervening decades have not been kind to the Wiggins.