Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

“You’re preying on someone’s hopes, you’re preying on someone’s dreams. You’re preying on a particularly vulnerable population who all have artistic sensibilities.”

How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

An obituary for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

Apex predators, feeding on pests and pets, teem in suburban Dallas and other American cities.

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

After taking on gentrification in Denver, did a successful anti-gang activist become a target of law enforcement?

Pedestrianism was a sport of epic rivalries, eyewatering salaries, feverish nationalism, eccentric personalities and six-day, 450-mile walks.

How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme.

27 courses that will live on in nightmares.

On Terri Schiavo, “persistent vegetative state,” and life or death decisions:

Imagine it. You are in your early twenties. You are watching a movie, say on Lifetime, in which someone has a feeding tube. You pick up the empty chip bowl. “No tubes for me,” you say as you get up to fill it. What are the chances you have given this even a passing thought?

A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.

A 15-year-old Russian has a shorter life expectancy than a peer in Bangladesh, Cambodia, or Yemen.

A hardcore night of Dungeons & Dragons with artist Zak Smith and his coterie of porn star players.

On Nigeria’s citizen vigilantes who’ve banded together to fight Islamist terrorists.

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

Kosovo’s leaders have been accused of grotesque war crimes. But can anyone prove it?