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

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.

The secret is an exclusive 22-year-old archive of viewer-submitted clips.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.

“I’ve increasingly become aware of how much of my reputation in Taiwan is built on the knowledge of my New York upbringing.”

On the life and legacy of one of soccer’s legends, who died Wednesday.

A brutal, bloody hunt. A ghastly, devastating attack. And a state left divided on what to do about its 2,500 black bears.

How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.

After thousands of birds vanished overnight from a Florida refuge, conspiracy theories bloomed.

When they go to bed tonight, white people will be five times likelier to get a good night’s sleep than African-Americans.

Twenty years ago, Brian Peixoto was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. But is he innocent?

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

The rise and fall of Quayside, a futuristic city concept that Google’s Sidewalk Labs planned to build in neglected part of Toronto.

The world’s greatest animator, Yuri Norstein, hasn’t released a new film in 37 years.

This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.

A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.

An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.

He worked as an engineer developing the technology to make Pringles potato chips before embarking on a prolific writing career. Known as the Melville of science fiction and celebrated for his inventive and challenging work, Wolfe died on April 14 at age 87.

Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?

His savvy on a longboard earned him trophies. His burglary of the Natural History museum in New York earned him headlines. And his brutality on a Florida boat 50-odd years ago earned him a lifetime in prison. Now: What does penance get you?

A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.

After nearly a year in Afghanistan—during which almost half of their unit was killed or injured—paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne have one more mission before they go home.