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

After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.

How activists are using science to show that someone can be truly attracted to both a man and a woman.

On Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, who died this week.

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

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.

Jonathan Kos-Read’s long, strange trip to movie stardom.

How a poet and an architect rescued a nation’s riches.

It was a genius piece of technology. But that didn’t mean it was a business.

How Mitt Romney made his millions.

On nineteenth century invalidism and how societies have drugged themselves through tough transitions across history.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

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

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse, his tight-knit Brooklyn community turned on him.

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

A conversation with Björk about Vulnicura, her new—and confessional—album about her recent break-up with Matthew Barney.

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