Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.

Why Darwin’s theory of sexual selection is wrong and “gayness is a necessary side effect of getting along.”

A profile of A.J. Daulerio, editor of Deadspin and procurer of, among other things, cell phone pics of Brett Favre’s penis.

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.

A profile of Florida’s former (and perhaps future) governor.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

A married father of two tracks down his free-living doppelgänger, a musician who has avoided responsibility at every turn, to see who’s happier.

A profile of 12-year-old actress Elle Fanning, Dakota’s sister.

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

All you need is a blueprint, a polymer, a printer, and a knowledge of government regulations.

Where does Strawberry-Kiwi Snapple come from? Givaudan is part of a tiny, secretive industry that produces new flavors.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.

On bareback horse relay racing, a Native American tradition:

“It’s going to be America’s next extreme sport,” he predicts. “Compare it to Professional Bull Riders, PBR. Look how big that got—a million in prize money in every city they go to. That’s how Indian Relay is going to be in 10 years. I look for it to be at every track in the country by 2025.

Trying to prevent the next tragedy.

The Sandy Hook killer’s father tells his story.

How the mall was born.

A daughter remembers her father’s glass eye.

On jazz and the hipster psychopath.

Life in Nucla, Colorado.

How franchises became the movie business.

Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.