A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

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.

The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.

How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.

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

Many young South Koreans were beginning to live in isolation years before the rest of the world joined them.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

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

Long before the likes of Kim Kardashian, Marie Bashkirtseff sought to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand.”

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

A profile of Hugo Chávez.

The plight of temporary workers in America.

A profile of photographer Ryan McGinley.

The dark and dangerous world of extreme cavers.