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.

Despite its association with piracy, BitTorrent is a company in its own right, and one desperate to hit upon a way to monetize its revolutionary file transfer technology.

“You know a storm is going to be bad, people in Oklahoma will tell you, when Gary England removes his jacket.” A profile of a meteorologist who has worked Tornado Alley for more than 40 years.

Atul Gawande’s recent commencement address at Stanford’s School of Medicine graduation. “Each of you is now an expert. Congratulations. So why—in your heart of hearts—do you not quite feel that way?”

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

On the echoes between the world leading up to World War I and our present international trajectory. Then, as globalization, nationalism, and radicalism converged, and tensions within the Balkans served as a spark. Today, conflicts in the Middle East, whose borders were mostly drawn in the wake of World War I, could play a similar role.

The preacher ran a prostitution ring out of his halfway house. The teenager posed as his nephew and later claimed he feared for his own life. Only one man they drove into the woods would survive.

For the first time, the giants of the tech industry are spending more on creating, buying, and fighting patents than they are on R&D.

Part of New York Times’ ongoing iEconomy series.

The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.