Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

What happens when SpaceX takes over your sleepy Texas town.

If something isn’t done now, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill as many as 10 million people a year by 2050.

Park ranger Paul Fugate vanished on an Arizona trail more than forty years ago. Investigators are still looking for him.

Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?

Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed.

How one man helped get Vitamin D into milk, fortified food, and spurred our obsession with supplements.

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.

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

Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.

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

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

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

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

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.

A controversial effort divides students by race in order to combat racism.